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Chun-Chi Chen1, Chorng-Sii Hwang2, You-Ting Lin1
1Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City 81146, Taiwan.
Abstract:
This paper presents an all-digital CMOS pulse-shrinking mechanism suitable for time-to-digital converters (TDCs). A simple MOS capacitor is used as a pulse-shrinking cell to perform time attenuation for time resolving. Compared with a previous pulse-shrinking mechanism, the proposed mechanism provides an appreciably improved temporal resolution with high linearity. Furthermore, the use of a binary-weighted pulse-shrinking unit with scaled MOS capacitors is proposed for achieving a programmable resolution. A TDC involving the proposed mechanism was fabricated using a TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) 0.18-μm CMOS process, and it has a small area of nearly 0.02 mm(2) and an integral nonlinearity error of ±0.8 LSB for a resolution of 24 ps.
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