Author Affiliations
1State Key Laboratories of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China2Key Laboratory of Infrared Imaging Materials and Detectors, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Working principle of time-to-digital converter circuit
Fig. 2. Structure of three-stage time-to-digital converter circuit
Fig. 3. Working sequence of three-stage time-to-digital converter circuit
Fig. 4. Three-stage time-to-digital converter circuit
Fig. 5. Structure of delay-locked loop circuit
Fig. 6. Voltage-controlled delay chain and delay unit
Fig. 7. Voltage-controlled delay chain - Multi-stage split-phase clock
Fig. 8. Global clock network layout
Fig. 9. Low segment data latch circuit. (a) Data latch circuit before optimization; (b) Data latch circuit after optimization
Fig. 10. Schematic diagram of inter-segment errors
Fig. 11. Delay error of asynchronous counter
Fig. 12. Delayed sampling of M_TDC signal
Fig. 13. High segment - linear feedback shift register
Fig. 14. Microscope photo of array type TDC
Fig. 15. Block diagram of TDC test system
Fig. 16. Time-to-digital conversion curve. (a) Full-scale conversion curve; (b) 1112 ns partial amplification conversion curve
Fig. 17. Statistical distribution of TDC conversion steps
Fig. 18. Differential non-linearity test results
Fig. 19. Integral non-linearity test result
Fig. 20. Non-ideal duty cycle split-phase clock
STOP signal effective area | A | B | C | D | E | Middle and high TDC count value | n | n+1
| n+1
| n+1
| n+1
| D1_CLK latch level | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Latched correctly ? | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
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Table 1. Count value of time-to-digital converter circuit
Ideal conversion step | Actual conversion step | 0-0.5T | 0.7T | 0.5-1.0T | 0.4T | 1.0-1.5T | 0.5T | 1.5-2.0T | 0.5T | 2.0-2.5T | 0.4T/0.3T | 2.5-3.0T | 0.5T | 3.0-3.5T | 0.5T | 3.5-4.0T | 0.5T/0.6T |
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Table 2. Conversion step size statistics of time-to-digital converter circuit
Parameter | Ref. [2]
| Ref. [12]
| Ref. [13]
| This work | CMOS technology/nm | 350 | 130 | 350 | 180 | Supply voltage/V | 3.3 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 1.8 | Pixel pitch/μm | 150 | 50 | 100 | 100 | Pixel array | 32×32 | 32×32 | 16×16 | 64×64 | TDC frame rate/kHz | 100 | 500 | 20 | 20 | TDC resolution/ns | 0.312 | 0.119 | 0.575 | 0.5 | DNL/LSB | 0.06 | 0.4 | −0.57–0.58 | −0.4–0.4 | INL/LSB | 0.22 | 1.2 | −0.9–0.57 | −0.4–0.6 | TDC range/μs | 0.32 | 0.1 | 2 | 4.08 | Power consumption/mW | 315 | 90/Core only | 151.8 | 380.5 |
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Table 3. Summary of time-to-digital circuit index