A CMOS time amplifier for Femto-second resolution timing measurement

Author

Oulmane, Mourad ; Roberts, Gordon W.

Author_Institution

Microelectron. & Comput. Syst. Lab., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

23-26 May 2004

Abstract

In this paper we present a new perspective on time amplification and its application to timing measurements on the Femto-second time scale. A simple yet practical circuit implementation for the amplification of the time between discrete (digital) events is introduced. Some metrics and figures of merit and performance are defined and parallels with the traditional amplification of "traditional physical" quantities, such as voltage and current, are drawn. The time amplifier (TAMP) has a dynamic range span from a few hundreds of Femto-seconds to a few hundreds of pico-seconds.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; time measurement; CMOS time amplifier; circuit implementation; digital events; discrete events; femto-second resolution; femto-second time scale; time amplification; timing measurement; traditional amplification; traditional physical quantities; Circuit testing; Differential amplifiers; Laboratories; Microelectronics; Signal resolution; System testing; Time measurement; Timing jitter; Transmission line measurements; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2004. ISCAS '04. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8251-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2004.1328243

Filename

1328243