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TLDR I built a relatively simple, cheap, and most of all maker friendly Constant Fraction Discriminator for high precision photomultiplier (and SiPM) timing applications. I wrote a paper about the circuit, it was published open access (yay!), and now I hope you’ll read it Motivation...
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Motivation This is a very short one – but I felt like sharing this with the world. I was playing around with the humble long-tailed pair transistor amplifier in LTSpice. I noticed something interesting – not only can it be used as a differential voltage amplifier, but it seems it can also be...
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Demo Video Introduction Earlier this year I wrote a post about how to build a simple shortwave receiver with nothing but widely available hobbyist electronics parts, i.e. 74HCxx ICs, standard transistors and op-amps. Half-jokingly I called it “a 74xx defined radio“. The heart of the...