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Design and Characterization of an Asynchronous Fixed Priority Tree Arbiter for SPAD Array Readout

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The usage of single-photon avalanche diode arrays is becoming increasingly common in various domains such as medical imaging, automotive vision systems, and optical communications. Nowadays, thanks to the development of microelectronics technologies, the SPAD arrays designed for these applications has been drastically well-facilitated, allowing for the manufacturing of large matrices. However, there are growing challenges for the design of readout circuits with the needs of reducing their energy consumption (linked to the usage cost) and data rate. Indeed, the design of the readout circuit for the SPAD array is generally based on synchronous logic; the latter requires synchronization that may increase the dead time of the SPADs and clock trees management that are known to increase power consumption. With these limitations, the long-neglected asynchronous (clockless) logic proved to be a better alternative because of its ability to operate without a clock. In this paper, we presented the design of a 16-to-1 fixed-priority tree arbiter readout circuit for a SPAD array based on asynchronous logic principles. The design of this circuit was explained in detail and supported by simulation results. The manufactured chip was tested, and the experimental results showed that it is possible to record up to 333 million events per second; no reading errors were detected during the data extraction test
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hal-03245660 , version 1 (15-06-2021)

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Enagnon Aguenounon, Safa Razavinejad, Jean-Baptiste Schell, Mohammadreza Dolatpoor Lakeh, Wassim Khaddour, et al.. Design and Characterization of an Asynchronous Fixed Priority Tree Arbiter for SPAD Array Readout. Sensors, 2021, 21 (12), pp.3949. ⟨10.3390/s21123949⟩. ⟨hal-03245660⟩
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