A fast, programmable, multichannel pulse delay generator

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-67

  Imperiale, Cosimo ^a,b  

^a Pacific Western University   (United States)

^b Med Technology and Electron Lab   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multichannel pulse delay generator; Nuclear events emulator in the subnanosecond range; Time to amplitude converters test instrumentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007295609     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2241(99)00022-6     Document Type: Article

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