太赫兹科学与电子信息学报, 2018, 16 (1): 164, 网络出版: 2018-07-24   

基于新型时间放大器流水线时间数字转换器

A pipelined Time-to-Digital converter using a novel time amplifier
作者单位
1 中国科学院电子学研究所,北京 100190
2 中国科学院大学,北京 100049
摘要
针对传统时间数字转换器(TDC)中普遍存在的转换速度与转换精确度相互制约问题,提出一种适用于流水线型TDC 结构的新型边沿对准时间放大器。这种时间放大器采用三级门控延时链与边沿合成器的级联结构,可实现增益为4 的整数倍时间放大。在0.35 μm 标准CMOS工艺下完成整体流水线型TDC 的设计,仿真结果显示,输入动态范围为6.11 ns,时间分辨力为13.1 ps,转换速率为50 MSamples/s。相比于传统基于脉冲序列时间放大器的TDC,转换速率提高19.5%,精确度提高33.7%。
Abstract
A novel Edge Align-Time Amplifier(EA-TA) is proposed aiming at improving the trade-off between conversion rate and precision in traditional Time-to-Digital Converter(TDC). This time amplifier in pipeline TDC consists of 3 cascaded gated delay lines and edge combiner to achieve an integral gain of 4. The pipelined TDC is implemented in standard 0.35 μm CMOS process. Full simulation results show that the TDC can achieve 13.1 ps of resolution at 50 MSamples/s while the dynamic input range is 6.11 ns. Compared to other time amplifier such as Pulse Train-Time Amplifier(PT-TA), the proposed edge-align time amplifier can get 19.5% and 33.7% higher in conversion rate and precision respectively.
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魏星, 陈柱佳, 李威, 黄志洪, 杨海钢. 基于新型时间放大器流水线时间数字转换器[J]. 太赫兹科学与电子信息学报, 2018, 16(1): 164. WEI Xing, CHEN Zhujia, LI Wei, HUANG Zhihong, YANG Haigang. A pipelined Time-to-Digital converter using a novel time amplifier[J]. Journal of terahertz science and electronic information technology, 2018, 16(1): 164.

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