Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time-to-digital converter
- Patent Title (中): 时间到数字转换器
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Application No.: US12382056Application Date: 2009-03-06
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Publication No.: US07884751B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Kazuya Shimizu , Masato Kaneta , Haruo Kobayashi , Tatsuji Matsuura , Katsuyoshi Yagi , Akira Abe , Koichiro Mashiko
- Applicant: Kazuya Shimizu , Masato Kaneta , Haruo Kobayashi , Tatsuji Matsuura , Katsuyoshi Yagi , Akira Abe , Koichiro Mashiko
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama
- Assignee: Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama
- Priority: JP2008-058450 20080307
- Main IPC: H03M1/50
- IPC: H03M1/50

Abstract:
A TDC circuit having a small scale circuit and high resolution is disclosed, which is a time-to-digital converter that detects a phase with respect to a reference clock of a signal to be measured, comprising a first delay line in which a plurality of first delay elements with a first delay amount is connected in series, a second delay line group that is connected to a plurality of connection nodes of the first delay line or an input node in the first stage and in which at least one or more second delay elements with a second delay amount different from the first delay amount are connected in series, a plurality of judgment circuits that judge whether the changing edge of the signal to be measured is advanced or delayed with respect to the changing edges of a delayed clock output from the first delay element and the second delay element, and an operation circuit that calculates a phase with respect to the reference clock of the changing edge of the signal to be measured from the judgment results, wherein a difference between the first delay amount and the second delay amount is smaller than the first delay amount and the second delay amount.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090225631A1 Time-to-digital converter Public/Granted day:2009-09-10
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