Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time to digital converter (TDC) with synchronous output and related methods
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Application No.: US14920344Application Date: 2015-10-22
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Publication No.: US10067224B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: John Kevin Moore , Neale Dutton
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Marlow Bucks
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITED
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Marlow Bucks
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Main IPC: G01S7/48
- IPC: G01S7/48 ; G01S7/486 ; G04F10/00

Abstract:
A time to digital converter (TDC) may include a sampling stage configured to sample an input signal based upon a plurality of timing signals having different respective phases, and provide a respective output for each of the different timing signals. A first synchronization stage may be configured to receive the outputs from the sampling stage, synchronize a first subset of the outputs to a first one of the plurality of timing signals, and synchronize a second subset of the outputs to a second one of the plurality of timing signals. A second synchronization stage may be configured to receive the synchronized outputs from the first synchronization stage, and synchronize all of the synchronized outputs from the first synchronization stage to the first one of the plurality of timing signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170115381A1 TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER (TDC) WITH SYNCHRONOUS OUTPUT AND RELATED METHODS Public/Granted day:2017-04-27
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