Time-to-digital conversion with 10 ps single shot resolution

9 December 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 319-322
https://doi.org/10.1109/melcon.1991.161841

Abstract

A time-to-digital converter (TDC) with 10-20 ps ( sigma -value) single-shot resolution was designed for laser range finding. It has an extendable 2.56- mu s measurement range and a channel length of 10 ps. Average temperature drift was measured to be +1.7 ps/ degrees C. The TDC is constructed on only one E1-sized printed circuit board. This was made possible by integrating digital circuits with an ECL gate array. The power consumption of the TDC is 5.1 W.

Keywords

PULSE MEASUREMENTS
LASER RADAR
CLOCKS
TIME MEASUREMENT
OPTICAL PULSES
RADAR MEASUREMENTS
SHAPE MEASUREMENT
INTERPOLATION
OPTICAL DESIGN
OPTICAL RECEIVERS

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Time-to-digital converter with an analog interpolation circuit
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