Invention Application
- Patent Title: LOW-POWER HIGH-RESOLUTION TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER
- Patent Title (中): 低功耗高分辨率时间 - 数字转换器
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Application No.: US13743711Application Date: 2013-01-17
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Publication No.: US20130214959A1Publication Date: 2013-08-22
- Inventor: Ja Yol LEE
- Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Priority: KR10-2012-0015695 20120216
- Main IPC: H03M1/50
- IPC: H03M1/50

Abstract:
Disclosed is a low-power and high-resolution time-to-digital converter including: a coarse delay cell configured to delay a reference clock by a coarse delay time and output the reference clock; a rising-edge retimer configured to output a rising-edge retimed clock synchronized with the rising-edge of a DCO clock in response to the reference clock; a falling-edge retimer configured to output a falling-edge retimed clock synchronized with the falling-edge of the DCO clock; a firs sampler configured to latches output of the coarse delay cell in response to the rising-edge retimed clock and the falling-edge retimed clock; and a pseudo-thermometer code edge detector configured to detect a rising-edge fractional phase error between the reference clock and the rising-edge retimed clock as a coarse phase error from a signal output by the first sampler, and detect a falling-edge fractional phase error between the reference clock and the falling-edge retimed clock.
Public/Granted literature
- US08797203B2 Low-power high-resolution time-to-digital converter Public/Granted day:2014-08-05
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