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GitHub - Leokoppel - GP22 - An Arduino Library For The Acam GP22 Time-to-Digital Converter

This library provides an Arduino C++ interface for the Acam GP22 Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) chip. It includes methods for initializing communication with the TDC, reading and writing registers, and calibrating the TDC. An example application shows how to use the TDC for time-correlated single photon counting and send data to a PC over a serial connection. The library is intended to simplify using the TDC by handling complex register operations and calibration sequences.

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GitHub - Leokoppel - GP22 - An Arduino Library For The Acam GP22 Time-to-Digital Converter

This library provides an Arduino C++ interface for the Acam GP22 Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) chip. It includes methods for initializing communication with the TDC, reading and writing registers, and calibrating the TDC. An example application shows how to use the TDC for time-correlated single photon counting and send data to a PC over a serial connection. The library is intended to simplify using the TDC by handling complex register operations and calibration sequences.

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An Arduino library for the Acam GP22 Time-to-Digital Converter

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README.md

GP22
This is an Arduino C++ library for the Acam GP22 Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC), an
integrated sub-nanosecond resolution timer chip. It will also work with the GP21.

This library includes

Methods to initialize the SPI connection to the TDC and test communication
Methods to read and write the GP22's registers
Methods to calibrate the TDC (which cache register values to pause operation, calibrate,
and resume arbitrarily).
Enum definitions for each config register bit and opcode, for clearer code
Debug methods to print register values to a serial port

The code meant to be used in conjunction with the datasheet as a starting point for your
application, though it has not been tested extensively enough to act as a "black box" for the
TDC. For example, the correct sequence of register reads and writes to initialize and
calibrate the TDC can be tricky to work out from the translated datasheet, and it has already
been done here.

TDCtalk example
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examples/TDCtalk includes application-specific code for using the GP22 for time-correlated
single photon counting (TCSPC), and sending the data back to a PC application using a
custom serial protocol. This is not a made-up instructional example, but somewhat ugly
"real" application code. However, some parts of the code will hopefully be useful even for
another application.

This example initializes the TDC and sets it up to work in "fast mode" (with EN_FAST_INIT
enabled). It then attaches an interrupt to the pin connected to the GP22's INT pin. On each
reading, the TDC triggers an interrupt, and the Arduino reads and saves the uncalibrated
measurement to a buffer. Upon a request from the PC application, the Arduino sends the
buffer contents to the PC. It can also calibrate the TDC at any time (momentarily ignoring
new readings, then resuming). On an Arduino Uno, this can support a maximum event rate
of about 5 kHz. The corresponding LabVIEW client application is included, but requires
LabVIEW to run.

Installation
To use with the Arduino IDE, place the GP22 library folder into the libraries subfolder of
your Arduino sketches folder, and restart the IDE.

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