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A data transmission and time measurement system for bit commitment experiment

Hongfei Zhang, Jian Wang, Ke Cui, Sheng-zhao Lin, Dong-xu Yang, Jian Wang

Published May 1, 2014• 1 citation

Abstract

A data transmission and time measurement system for bit commitment experiment is introduced in this paper. The design is for requirement of fast data transmission and time measurement of bit commitment experiment including high bandwidth data transmission, storage, real time processing with FPGA, USB 2.0, FPGA-based TDC and TDC-GPX for time measurement. The system is applied in the bit commitment experiments successfully.

DOI: 10.1109/rtc.2014.7097554

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