Timing device and method
AssigneeKratos Analytical Limited
InventorIan SHERWOOD
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Abstract
The present invention provides a timing device, especially a timing device for use in mass spectrometers, for example TOF mass spectrometers, for processing trigger signal data containing a trigger signal indicating the occurrence of a trigger event, the timing device having: a trigger signal deserialiser configured to receive trigger signal data containing a trigger signal indicating the occurrence of a trigger event as serial data and to output the trigger signal data as parallel data, and wherein suitably the timing device has a processing means configured to process trigger signal data outputted by the trigger signal deserialiser as parallel data.
Claims20
A timing device for processing trigger signal data containing a trigger signal indicating the occurrence of a trigger event, the timing device having:
- a trigger signal deserialiser configured to receive trigger signal data containing a trigger signal indicating the occurrence of a trigger event as serial data and to output the trigger signal data as parallel data.
A timing device according to 2 wherein the processing means is configured to produce control data for controlling the operation of one or more components based on trigger signal data outputted by the trigger signal deserialiser as parallel data.
A timing device according to 1, wherein the timing device is included in an apparatus having a trigger signal data source configured to output trigger signal data containing a trigger signal indicating the occurrence of a trigger event as serial data, wherein the trigger signal deserialiser of the timing device is configured to receive trigger signal data outputted by the trigger signal data source.
A method including:
- receiving, at a trigger signal deserialiser, trigger signal data containing a trigger signal indicating the occurrence of a trigger event as serial data and outputting, from the trigger signal deserialiser, the trigger signal data as parallel data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.