  A Time to Digital Converter (TDC) based system, to be used for most
sub-detectors in the high-flux rare-decay experiment NA62 at CERN SPS, was
built as part of the NA62 fully digital Trigger and Data AcQuisition system
(TDAQ), in which the TDC Board (TDCB) and a general-purpose motherboard (TEL62)
will play a fundamental role. While TDCBs, housing four High Performance Time
to Digital Converters (HPTDC), measure hit times from sub-detectors, the
motherboard processes and stores them in a buffer, produces trigger primitives
from different detectors and extracts only data related to the lowest trigger
level decision, once this is taken on the basis of the trigger primitives
themselves. The features of the TDCB board developed by the Pisa NA62 group are
extensively discussed and performance data is presented in order to show its
compliance with the experiment requirements.
