Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time-to-digital converter
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Application No.: US16900452Application Date: 2020-06-12
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Publication No.: US11042126B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Chao Yuan , Rui Yu , Xuesong Chen , Supeng Liu , Theng Tee Yeo
- Applicant: Huawei International Pte. Ltd.
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore
- Assignee: Huawei International Pte. Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Huawei International Pte. Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore
- Agency: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- Main IPC: G04F10/00
- IPC: G04F10/00 ; H03K3/03 ; H03L7/085

Abstract:
A time-to-digital converter (TDC) is disclosed, which comprises a ring oscillator module and a digital error correction module. The ring oscillator module is configured to receive a sampling signal, an addressing signal, and a preset signal, and includes: a ring oscillator arranged with a plurality of inverters; a phase sampler configured to sample phase signals generated by the inverters for generating a first output signal; a counter clock generator configured to generate first and second clock signals; first and second counters configured to respectively generate first and second counter output signals; and a data sampler configured to sample the first and second counter output signals to respectively generate second and third output signals. The digital error correction module is arranged to process the first, second and third output signals for generating a digital signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200310359A1 TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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