Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for calibrating a time to digital converter device
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Application No.: US15599571Application Date: 2017-05-19
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Publication No.: US10579021B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Didier Salle , Olivier Vincent Doaré , Birama Goumballa , Cristian Pavao Moreira
- Applicant: NXP USA, INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Priority: EP16306647 20161208
- Main IPC: G04F10/00
- IPC: G04F10/00 ; H03M1/50 ; H03L7/085 ; H03L7/099 ; H03K5/159

Abstract:
A Time to Digital converter (TDC) may have a Vernier architecture of multiple successive modules arranged in series. Each of the modules may output an indication of a differential in phase between two received signals. Each module may include two signal lines for the received signals, and it may be desirable to calibrate the two signal lines. To this end, a signal output from a proceeding module may be provided to both signal lines of a succeeding module and used as a reference or calibration signal to calibrate the two signal lines of the module.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180164748A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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