{"title":"A 90nm CMOS gated-ring-oscillator-based Vernier time-to-digital converter for DPLLs","authors":"P. Lu, P. Andreani, A. Liscidini","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC.2011.6045006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Two gated ring oscillators (GRO) act as the delay lines in an improved Vernier time-to-digital converter (TDC). The already small quantization noise of the standard Vernier TDC is further first-order shaped by the GRO operation. The TDC has been implemented in a 90nm CMOS technology and achieves a resolution better than 5ps for a signal bandwidth of 800kHz. The current consumption is 3mA from 1.2V when operating at 25MHz.","PeriodicalId":239979,"journal":{"name":"2011 Proceedings of the ESSCIRC (ESSCIRC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 Proceedings of the ESSCIRC (ESSCIRC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2011.6045006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Two gated ring oscillators (GRO) act as the delay lines in an improved Vernier time-to-digital converter (TDC). The already small quantization noise of the standard Vernier TDC is further first-order shaped by the GRO operation. The TDC has been implemented in a 90nm CMOS technology and achieves a resolution better than 5ps for a signal bandwidth of 800kHz. The current consumption is 3mA from 1.2V when operating at 25MHz.