Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time-to-digital converter and all-digital phase-locked loop
- Patent Title (中): 时间到数字转换器和全数字锁相环
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Application No.: US12627229Application Date: 2009-11-30
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Publication No.: US07973578B2Publication Date: 2011-07-05
- Inventor: Do-hwan Oh , Kyo-Jin Choo , Deog-Kyoon Jeong
- Applicant: Do-hwan Oh , Kyo-Jin Choo , Deog-Kyoon Jeong
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si KR Seoul
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si KR Seoul
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: KR10-2009-0076780 20090819
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06

Abstract:
A time-to-digital converter (TDC) includes a converter which receives a first signal and a second signal, delays the second signal in phases using a plurality of delay elements which are coupled in series, compares the delayed second signal with the first signal, and outputs a phase error of the second signal with respect to the first signal, a phase frequency detector which receives the first signal, and a third signal from one of the nodes in the plurality of delay elements, and outputs a phase difference between the first signal and the third signal, and a frequency detector which outputs a frequency error of the second signal with respect to the first signal as a digital code using an output signal of the phase frequency detector and the second signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100134165A1 TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND ALL-DIGITAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOP Public/Granted day:2010-06-03
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