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- Patent Title: Methods and devices for TDC resolution improvement
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Application No.: US17355217Application Date: 2021-06-23
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Publication No.: US12191871B2Publication Date: 2025-01-07
- Inventor: Evgeny Shumaker , Elan Banin , Ofir Degani , Gil Horovitz
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: VIERING, JENTSCHURA & PARTNER MBB
- Main IPC: H03L7/24
- IPC: H03L7/24 ; G04F10/00 ; H03L7/085 ; H03L7/099

Abstract:
A TDC circuit configured to receive a reference clock (REF) signal and a signal derived from a LO; generate a plurality of digital values indicative of a measured phase difference between the signal derived from the LO and the REF signal, wherein each of the plurality of digital values are determined from a unique set of a plurality of sets of TDC measurement component quantization levels; generate a combined series of quantization levels based on a combination of the plurality of sets of TDC measurement component quantization levels; and determine a combined digital value from the combined series of quantization levels and at least one of the plurality of digital values to generate an output of the TDC circuit. The combined series of quantization levels may be generated by summing simultaneously occurring levels of each of the plurality of sets of TDC measurement component quantization levels together.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220278690A1 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TDC RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT Public/Granted day:2022-09-01
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