A register controlled delay locked loop using a TDC and a new fine delay line scheme

Author

Shim, Yong ; Jo, Youngkwon ; Kim, SooHwan ; Kim, Suki ; Cho, Kwangiun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul

fYear

2006

fDate

21-24 May 2006

Abstract

This paper presents a register controlled delay lock loop (RCDLL) with a time-to-digital converter (TDC) and a new fine delay line (FDL) scheme. The architecture of the proposed DLL uses a time-to-digital converter (TDC), a digital-to-time converter (DTC) scheme for short length of coarse delay line (CDL), and a open loop duty cycle corrector (DCC). While the conventional DLL has two feedback loops, the DLL with an open loop DCC has only one loop. So, it occupies a small area compared to the conventional one. Moreover, new FDL scheme is proposed which is capable of seamless boundary switching with a fixed delay step. HSPICE simulation results are based with ANAM 0.18mum 1P6M CMOS process with 1.5V power supply voltage. Upon the simulation results, the proposed DLL operates correctly from 200MHz to 800MHz. The power consumption is less than 24mW at 800MHz. The active area of the design is 0.178mm₂

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; delay lock loops; delays; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; 0.18 micron; 1.5 V; 200 to 800 MHz; CMOS process; HSPICE; coarse delay line; digital-to-time converter; feedback loops; fine delay line scheme; open loop duty cycle corrector; register controlled delay locked loop; time-to-digital converter; CMOS technology; Clocks; Delay lines; Design engineering; Energy consumption; Inverters; Registers; Switching converters; Temperature sensors; Tracking loops;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Island of Kos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9389-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693486

Filename

1693486