{"title":"Fully-digital time based ADC/TDC in 0.18μm CMOS","authors":"Vineet R. Sharma, Nupur Jain, B. Mishra","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-SATA.2016.7593040","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a fully digital sensor interface. For this, an analog to digital converter (ADC) and time to digital converter (TDC) based on a common time based ADC (TAD) architecture has been investigated. It is concluded that the proposed fully digital time-based ADC architecture can also be operated as TDC. The fully digital circuit has a ring delay line (RDL), latch, encoder and a synchronous counter. The circuit is implemented in 0.18μm digital CMOS, achieving 139μV/LSB (14-bit, 1-MS/s, 1.6 mW) in ADC mode and 227 ps/LSB (VIN = 1.0 V, 14-bit), 94 ps/LSB (VIN = 1.8 V, 14-bit) in TDC mode respectively. In addition to the scalable design, the resolution of both TDC as well as ADC, can be set by a variable input voltage, VIN.","PeriodicalId":328401,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architectures, Technology and Applications (VLSI-SATA)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architectures, Technology and Applications (VLSI-SATA)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SATA.2016.7593040","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper proposes a fully digital sensor interface. For this, an analog to digital converter (ADC) and time to digital converter (TDC) based on a common time based ADC (TAD) architecture has been investigated. It is concluded that the proposed fully digital time-based ADC architecture can also be operated as TDC. The fully digital circuit has a ring delay line (RDL), latch, encoder and a synchronous counter. The circuit is implemented in 0.18μm digital CMOS, achieving 139μV/LSB (14-bit, 1-MS/s, 1.6 mW) in ADC mode and 227 ps/LSB (VIN = 1.0 V, 14-bit), 94 ps/LSB (VIN = 1.8 V, 14-bit) in TDC mode respectively. In addition to the scalable design, the resolution of both TDC as well as ADC, can be set by a variable input voltage, VIN.