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It's just about time!

cronologic offers custom-made data acquisition solutions for high-speed and high-precision signal processing and analysis. We provide a set of standard products focusing on high-precision timing measurements of digital signals, and high-speed analog signal transient recording.

In addition, we develop custom designs for those customers that require appropriate production quantities.

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Our product portfolio comprises a range of versatile time-to-digital converters (TDC) and analog-to-digital converters (ADC). Many of our customers' applications rely on time-of-flight (TOF) measurements. Our PC boards are ideally suited for use in mass spectrometry (TOF-MS) and Systems, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM), Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), and others.

Our multi-hit capable time interval analyzers perform measurements of pulse arrival times at highest precision. Our transient recorders (ADCs) provide additional analog pulse shape information as, for example, pulse height, width, and area, and allow for detailed pulse shape analysis to disentangle single-pulse contribution in scenarios of overlapping pulses. Many of our boards can be linked and synchronized for high channel count applications. Our Ndigo Crates may house up to 8 PCIe boards in an external casing in such settings.

Our platform-based approach allows us to quickly customize products for OEM customers that need additional features for their systems.

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Ndigo-Crate

Add up to 8 PCIe and PCI slots to your PC with comfortable front access.
Ndigo-Crate

Ndigo6G-12

The Ndigo6G-12 ADC offers a 6,4 Gsps sample rate, 12 bits resolution, and a greatly improved readout rate of 6 GB/s.
Ndigo6G-12

xHPTDC8-PCIe

Our most versatile TDC combines the precision of the xTDC4-PCIe with the channel count and flexibility of the HPTDC8-PCI.
xHPTDC8-PCIe

Ndigo-Crate

Add up to 8 PCIe and PCI slots to your PC with comfortable front access.
Ndigo-Crate

Ndigo6G-12

The Ndigo6G-12 ADC offers a 6,4 Gsps sample rate, 12 bits resolution, and a greatly improved readout rate of 6 GB/s.
Ndigo6G-12

xHPTDC8-PCIe

Our most versatile TDC combines the precision of the xTDC4-PCIe with the channel count and flexibility of the HPTDC8-PCI.
xHPTDC8-PCIe

Ndigo-Crate

Add up to 8 PCIe and PCI slots to your PC with comfortable front access.
Ndigo-Crate

Ndigo6G-12

The Ndigo6G-12 ADC offers a 6,4 Gsps sample rate, 12 bits resolution, and a greatly improved readout rate of 6 GB/s.
Ndigo6G-12

xHPTDC8-PCIe

Our most versatile TDC combines the precision of the xTDC4-PCIe with the channel count and flexibility of the HPTDC8-PCI.
xHPTDC8-PCIe

cronologic blog

Internship with consequences

On Girls' and Boys' Day in April, Jeremiah Börner was our guest and had the opportunity to get a taste of professional life for the first time in his life. Want to learn more about how that turned out?
May 24, 2022
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1 min
Bathymetric LIDAR application

ADCs and TDCs in LIDAR applications

Find out how advanced TDCs and ADCs are pushing the boundaries of LIDAR technology. This technology is based on a pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) measurement method for distance ranging and is used for the three-dimensional acquisition of coordinates with high precision and measuring point density.
April 13, 2022
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3 min.
decorative teaser for atomic clocks comparison

How to compare atomic clocks

We are quite sure that atomic clocks also play a role in your everyday life - even if you may not realize it. But did you know how scientists make sure that all atomic clocks in our part of the solar system tick in the same way? And what is it about optical clocks and nuclear clocks?
March 15, 2022
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15 minutes
preview of a FLIM measurement

DAQ in FLIM measurements

The decay time of an excited fluorophore is typically in the range of a few nanoseconds. In fluorescence lifetime imaging the exponential decay of a sample is determined requiring a timing resolution in the picosecond regime. Read about how lifetime mapped imaging is performed today.
February 25, 2022
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5 min
Learn more about TOF-MS applications.

A matter of accuracy

The exact determination of the mass of the individual atoms or molecules of a sample represents the most widespread field of application for our ADCs. Depending on the requirements of developers, they will also benefit from the excellent price-performance ratio of our TDCs.
February 9, 2022
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20 min
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patchday @ cronologic

Today is patch day @ cronologic. Users of cronologic xTDC4, TimeTagger4, xHPTDC8, and HPTDC8 will receive some new features and minor bug fixes with today's updates to our Windows drivers.
February 1, 2022
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1 min
Learn more about TCSPC applications.

7 advantages of time-correlated single photon counting

Time-correlated single photon counting is becoming more and more popular in science, not least thanks to advances in quantum research and research into expanding fiber optic technology. Regardless of this, the measurement method is now an integral part of biological, clinical, and medical research.
November 26, 2021
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1 min
Learn more about quantum research applications.

The use of TDCs in quantum research

Wolfgang Löffler's project in Leiden, Holland, finds answers to current questions in quantum research. In the process, our fast TDCs facilitate the development of single-photon counting receiver modules which convert single-photon detection events into streams of time tags.
October 19, 2021
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3 min.
Learn more about bindings for RUST.

Do you prefer Rust?

For our drivers, Rust bindings are provided, as created by Wolfgang Löffler of Leiden University. Find links to these bindings and to his research on photon quantum entanglement here.
October 7, 2021
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1 min
Learn more about our Linux support.

We support Linux.

You want it, you got it. Our development team got down to work at the earliest opportunity, so that we are now able to offer drivers for various kernel versions and Linux distributions at short notice.
September 22, 2021
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1 min
Learn more about our climate action.

cronologic signs industry position paper on climate action

While the global climate crisis is picking up speed, we in Germany are about to hold elections. Together with many other German companies, cronologic has signed a position paper calling for the next federal government to act faster against climate change.
September 7, 2021
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2 min
Learn more about Partial Reconfiguration.

The Ndigo6G-12 will use Partial Reconfiguration

The Ndigo6G-12 will use Partial Reconfiguration to improve performance, power consumption, and value for money for our customers.
July 26, 2021
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1 min
Learn more about us planting 1500 trees.

cronologic is planting 1500 trees

Earth Day inspires many companies around the world to take a close look at their own resource consumption. So does cronologic. We are planting 1500 trees in the Republic of Togo for CO2 compensation this year. This covers our CO2 emission for a three years time period.
April 23, 2021
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1 min
Learn more about our covid 19 response.

cronologic covid-19 response

Knock on wood! Until now we have zero infection at cronologic as we have taken strict measures right from the start of this pandemic to minimize the risk of infection for our employees. Have a look at the successful efforts we spent in order to avoid any contagion and how we deal with the situation.
April 12, 2021
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2 min
Learn more about xTDC4 and TANGO.

xTDC4 goes Tango

Sergey Omelkov has designed an open-source server for our xTDC4 to be used within Tango Controls environment. The Tango tool kit is capable of high-throughput science data acquisition, for developing, managing and monitoring small and large control systems.
March 2, 2021
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1 min
Learn more about HPTDC8 Python wrapper.

Python wrapper for HPDTC8

We knew that Sumant Oemrawsingh wrote a python wrapper for our HPTDC8 time to digital converter board a long time ago. However, we just now became aware that he made it available as open source... Read more...
February 12, 2021
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1 min