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.: US12721177Application Date: 2010-03-10
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Publication No.: US08174293B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Yoshiaki Yoshihara , Hiroyuki Kobayashi
- Applicant: Yoshiaki Yoshihara , Hiroyuki Kobayashi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Priority: JP2009-123327 20090521
- Main IPC: H03B21/00
- IPC: H03B21/00

Abstract:
A time to digital converter includes: a delay circuit having a plurality of delay stages that delay an input clock signal in multiple stages, at least one of the delay stages being a variable delay stage; a plurality of flip flops that capture outputs of the delay stages corresponding thereto in a one-to-one relation in response to input of a reference signal; an edge detecting circuit that detects changing edges of respective outputs of the flip flops; a counter circuit that counts a number of edges detected by the edge detecting circuit; and a control circuit that controls a delay amount of the variable delay stage according to the number of edges counted by the counter circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100295590A1 TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2010-11-25
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