Title :
A time-to-digital converter using a multi-phase voltage-controlled oscillator
Author :
Tang, I-Fu ; Kao, Shao-Ku
Author_Institution :
Electron. Circuits Lab., Chang Gung Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan
Abstract :
This paper presents a time-to-digital converter which employing a multi-phase voltage-controlled oscillator(VCO). The VCO operates at 1GHz clock and generates 16 phases which then expanded up to 64 phases, thus the resolution has expanded to 6 bits. With this technique, any time-based ADC could expand their resolution easily without using a higher frequency.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; voltage-controlled oscillators; analog-to-digital conversion; frequency 1 GHz; multi-phase structure; time-to-digital converter; voltage-controlled oscillator; word length 6 bit; Arrays; DH-HEMTs; Logic gates; Phased arrays; Voltage-controlled oscillators; multi-phase structure; time-to-digital converter (TDC); voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO);
Conference_Titel :
Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2010 IEEE International Conference of
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9997-7
DOI :
10.1109/EDSSC.2010.5713764
