This paper presents a digital scrambling technique to improve the linearity of flash time-to-digital converters (TDCs) with sub-gate-delay time resolution. Thanks to this approach, a flash TDC using N time arbiters behaves as a quasi-stochastic TDC with an equivalent number of samples equal to N2, at the negligible area cost of doubling the number of minimum load capacitors. The concept is proved in a 65-nm CMOS technology 40MHz TDC, which achieves a 3ps resolution. The differential nonlinearity is reduced from 1LSB to less than 0.2LSB.

Time-to-digital converter with 3-ps resolution and digital linearization algorithm

ZANUSO, MARCO;LEVANTINO, SALVATORE;SAMORI, CARLO;LACAITA, ANDREA LEONARDO
2010-01-01

Abstract

This paper presents a digital scrambling technique to improve the linearity of flash time-to-digital converters (TDCs) with sub-gate-delay time resolution. Thanks to this approach, a flash TDC using N time arbiters behaves as a quasi-stochastic TDC with an equivalent number of samples equal to N2, at the negligible area cost of doubling the number of minimum load capacitors. The concept is proved in a 65-nm CMOS technology 40MHz TDC, which achieves a 3ps resolution. The differential nonlinearity is reduced from 1LSB to less than 0.2LSB.
2010
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference. ESSCIRC 2010
978-1-4244-6664-1
sezele; TDC; ADPLL; CMOS
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