Time-to-digital converter and digital phase-locked loop circuit comprising the same

    公开(公告)号:US11942956B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17885844

    申请日:2022-08-11

    CPC classification number: H03L7/0992 H03L7/093 H03L7/0995 H03M1/1014

    Abstract: Provided is a time-to-digital converter, comprising a phase frequency detector configured to receive a phase-locked loop input clock and a feedback clock, a ring oscillator configured to perform oscillation with multi-phase clocks of a first period, a counter array configured to count the number of oscillations in which the ring oscillator oscillates in a first period by the number of positive integers during the first pulse width, a multiplexer configured to divide the first period into a plurality of zones using edge information of the multi-phase clocks of the ring oscillator, and selects and outputs voltage information of a plurality of neighboring phase clocks included in a first zone from the plurality of zones, an analog-to-digital converter, a calibrator, and a first adder, wherein the calibrator comprises, an offset lookup table generation circuit, a gain-corrected analog-to-digital conversion output generator, and a second adder.

    Memory device
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10297451B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-21

    申请号:US15644931

    申请日:2017-07-10

    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a memory device includes: providing a substrate; forming in a cell region a channel extending in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate and a plurality of gate electrode layers and a plurality of insulating layers stacked alternatingly on the substrate to be adjacent to the channel; forming a plurality of circuit elements on the substrate at a peripheral circuit region disposed at a periphery of the cell region; and forming an interlayer insulating layer on the substrate in the cell region and the peripheral circuit region, the interlayer insulating layer including a first, bottom interlayer insulating layer covering the plurality of circuit elements and at least a portion of the plurality of gate electrode layers, and a second, top interlayer insulating layer disposed on the first interlayer insulating layer.

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