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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2014
Applicant:
Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation, Toyko, PA (US);
Inventors:
David Canard, Colombelles, FR;
Julien Delorme, Colombelles, FR;
Assignee:
Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/20 (2006.01); H03L 7/093 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/201 (2013.01); H03L 7/093 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is described a time-to-digital conversion scheme using an arrangement of delay elements based Time-to-Digital Converter, TDC (), wherein dithering is built in the digital domain and introduced in the analog domain as a modulation of a supply voltage (TDC-supply) supplying delay elements of the TDC, each having a propagation delay which exhibits a dependency to their supply voltage.