A Novel Charge-Pump Based Time-to-Digital Converter

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作者
Napolitano, P. [1 ]
Alimenti, F. [1 ]
Carbone, P. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Perugia, Elect & Informat Engn Dept, I-06125 Perugia, Italy
关键词
Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC); Time-of-Flight (ToF); charge pump; incremental Sigma-Delta (Sigma Delta) converter;
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0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
In this work, the design of a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) for measuring the time-of-flight (ToF) of a radio pulse is described. It consists on two blocks: a time-to-voltage transducer, whose scheme is that of a charge pump, designed using a 0.25 mu m CMOS process, and an incremental first order Sigma-Delta (Sigma Delta) converter. The two blocks are connected together by means of a Sample and Hold Amplifier (SHA). The specifications are: time resolution smaller than 27 ps and range up to 220 ns. The total relative percentage error is less than 3%, if a more than 10 bits Sigma Delta converter is adopted.
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页码:1437 / 1442
页数:6
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