• DocumentCode
    2521806
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    15-17 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EDSSC.2010.5713764
  • Filename
    5713764