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Implementing method of optimum front-end conditioner based on Butterworth filter

ADVANCED NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION AND DETECTION

Implementing method of optimum front-end conditioner based on Butterworth filter

ZHANG Ruan-Yu
LUO Xiao-Bing
LI Tai-Hua
Nuclear Science and TechniquesVol.17, No.4pp.232-236Published in print 20 Aug 2006
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The front-end conditioner is an essential part of digital systems of nuclear spectrometer, which functions in two ways: (1) prevents saturation of the subsequent ADC; (2) limits the bandwidth of frequency to realize anti-aliasing. To realize the above-mentioned functions, an optimum front-end conditioner for a resistive feedback charge-sensitive preamplifier is designed. In the conditioner, the pole-zero compensation (P/Z compensation) technique was used to effectively filter signals from the preamplifier. The Butterworth filter was improved after the pole-zero position was optimally set up to shape the wave of output, which tallied with the whole system. The front-end conditioner can resolve the aberration of waveform of nuclear signals in a regular Butterworth filter. Compared with the traditional triple-pole filtering circuitry, the circuitry of this conditioner is more compact and flexible. Moreover, its output waveform is more symmetrical and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is higher. The improvement in the resolution of spectrometer is also significant.

Digital nuclear spectrometerPole-zero compensationButterworth filter
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