A Low-Power CMOS Time-to-Digital Converter

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 984-990

  Räisänen Ruotsalainen, Elvi ^a   Rahkonen, Timo ^a   Kostamovaara, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTERPOLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; RADAR;

CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DELAY LOCKED LOOP; INTERPOLATION TIME INTERVAL MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; PORTABLE LASER RADAR; PULSE SHRINKING DELAY LINES; SINGLE SHOT ACCURACY; SUPPLY VOLTAGE; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 0029375721     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.406397     Document Type: Article

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