Invention Application
- Patent Title: TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND CONVERSION METHOD
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Application No.: US16470410Application Date: 2017-12-08
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Publication No.: US20200110368A1Publication Date: 2020-04-09
- Inventor: Christian Mautner , Friedrich Bahnmueller , Friedrich Laengauer , Robert Kappel
- Applicant: ams AG
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@136efdeb
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/082034 WO 20171208
- Main IPC: G04F10/00
- IPC: G04F10/00 ; H03K23/00

Abstract:
A time-to-digital converter arrangement has a ring oscillator with a plurality of inverting elements and a first and a second counter coupled to the ring oscillator. The first counter is configured to increment a first counter value if a positive edge transition is present at one of the inverting elements. The second counter is configured to increment a second counter value if a negative edge transition is present at the one of the inverting elements. A storage element stores the first and the second counter value and logical states of the plurality of inverting elements. A decoder coupled to the storage element selects one of the first and the second counter value as a valid value based on an evaluation of the stored logical states, and outputs a total counter value based on the valid value and the stored logical states.
Public/Granted literature
- US10671025B2 Time-to-digital converter and conversion method Public/Granted day:2020-06-02
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