Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time-to-digital converter
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Application No.: US17403388Application Date: 2021-08-16
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Publication No.: US11435702B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Yoshiaki Morino , Masaomi Tsuru
- Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/50
- IPC: H03M1/50 ; G04F10/00 ; H03M1/12 ; H03L7/081 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/083

Abstract:
In a time-to-digital converter, a digital signal outputted by a phase information generator is inputted to each of the D terminals of first through Nth (N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) D-type flip-flop circuits in a first flip-flop group, each of the D terminals is connected to one end of a first delay element, the C terminal of the first D-type flip-flop circuit is connected to another end of the first delay element, the other end of the first delay element is connected to an input terminal, and, when N, the number of flip-flop circuits in the first flip-flop group, is equal to or greater than 3, for each J a natural number from 2 to N−1, C terminal of the (J+1)th D-type flip-flop circuit is connected to one end of the Jth delay element and one end of the (J−1)th delay element is connected to the other end of the Jth delay element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210373503A1 TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2021-12-02
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