Integrated time-to-digital converter with 30-ps single-shot precision

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1507-1510

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; OPTICAL RADAR; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING CIRCUITS;

SINGLE SHOT PRECISION; TIME DIGITIZERS; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0342955739     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.871330     Document Type: Article

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