ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief and general description of electronic units used in radiation measurements. Timing methods are characterized as "slow" or ''fast'' depending on the way the signal is derived. The timing uncertainty due to jitter depends on the amplitude of the noise and the slope of the signal close to the discriminator threshold. The timing signals are fed into a coincidence unit, so constructed that it produces an output signal only when the two timing pulses are coincident. The rise time is particularly important when the signal is going to be used for timing. As with high count rates, there are investigations continue in implementing digital electronics in radiation detection systems. Some of the titles include selected topics in nuclear electronics, nuclear electronics laboratory manual, signal processing and electronics for nuclear spectrometry, troubleshooting in nuclear instruments, and quantifying uncertainty in nuclear analytical instruments.
