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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Sensl Technologies Ltd., County Cork, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SENSL TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Cork, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/44 (2006.01); G01T 1/29 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H01L 31/107 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/44 (2013.01); G01T 1/2985 (2013.01); H01L 27/14609 (2013.01); H01L 31/107 (2013.01); G01J 2001/442 (2013.01); G01J 2001/4466 (2013.01);
Abstract
A coincidence resolving time readout circuit is described. An analog SiPM sensor for detecting photons and generating an SIPM output signal is provided. An ADC is configured to provide multiple threshold values for converting the analogue SiPM output signal to digital values. A time to digital converter configured to receive multiple digital values from the ADC and timestamp the digital values.