Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time to digital converter and A/D conversion circuit
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Application No.: US16847755Application Date: 2020-04-14
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Publication No.: US10886934B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Masayoshi Todorokihara
- Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2019-076941 20190415
- Main IPC: H03M1/50
- IPC: H03M1/50 ; G04F10/00 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
A time to digital converter includes a state transition section configured to start, based on a trigger signal, state transition in which an internal state transitions, a transition-state acquiring section configured to acquire, in synchronization with a reference signal, state information from the state transition section and hold the state information, and an arithmetic operation section configured to calculate, based on the state information, a time digital value corresponding to the number of times of transition of the internal state. The state transition section includes a tapped delay line to which a plurality of delay elements are coupled, a logic circuit, and a state machine. The state information is represented by count information output from the state machine and propagation information output from the tapped delay line. A hamming distance of the state information before and after the state transition is 1. A time from when the internal state transitions from a first internal state to a second internal state until when the internal state reverts to the first internal state is longer than a time interval for updating the state information held by the transition-state acquiring section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200328755A1 Time To Digital Converter And A/D Converstion Circuit Public/Granted day:2020-10-15
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