Invention Publication
- Patent Title: TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERSION
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Application No.: US17998519Application Date: 2021-06-02
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Publication No.: US20230185250A1Publication Date: 2023-06-15
- Inventor: Frédéric NOLET , Nicolas ROY , Jean-François PRATTE , Frederik DUBOIS
- Applicant: SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C.
- Applicant Address: CA Sherbrooke
- Assignee: SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C.
- Current Assignee: SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Sherbrooke
- International Application: PCT/CA2021/050746 2021.06.02
- Date entered country: 2022-11-11
- Main IPC: G04F10/00
- IPC: G04F10/00 ; H03K3/03 ; H03K5/01

Abstract:
Time-to-digital converter (TDC) using multiple Vernier in a cascaded architecture reduces the timing jitter by decreasing the number of the ring oscillator cycles during the measurement processes. Time-to-digital converter (TDC) measurements using a third oscillator for the second Vernier process has significant advantages compared to changing the period of the second oscillator during the measurement cycle. The Vernier architecture described herein may operate with faster oscillators, reducing the number of intervals before converging and leading to a lower time conversion and a better timing jitter Adding multiple cascaded Vernier interpolation may further improve the TDC measurement resolution while having only a small increment of time required to resolve the time interval calculations.
Public/Granted literature
- US11782393B2 Time to digital conversion Public/Granted day:2023-10-10
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