A Review of New Time-to-Digital Conversion Techniques

• Published in: IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement Vol. 68; no. 10; pp. 3406 - 3417
• Main Authors: Tancock, Scott, Arabul, Ekin, Dahnoun, Naim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Application specific integrated circuits; Application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC); Calibration; Clocks; Converters; Delay lines; Delays; Distance measurement; Field programmable gate arrays; field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); Frequency locking; Integrated circuits; Literature reviews; measurement techniques; Performance measurement; Photonics; Positrons; review; time measurement; time-to-digital conversion

Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are vital components in time and distance measurement and frequency-locking applications. There are many architectures for implementing TDCs, from simple counter TDCs to hybrid multi-level TDCs, which use many techniques in tandem. This article completes the review...