A novel digital delay line architecture is presented, which is able to achieve a high resolution of 5 ps and a wide delay range of 8.6 ns simultaneously. It does so by combining elements of digital and analog delay locked loops and uses a replica circuit to compensate for temperature variations. Furthermore, accurate and precise delay steps with 3.8 ps RMS jitter are obtained by using combinatorial redundancy. Its overall performance is superior to state-of-the-art approaches, which make a trade-off for at least one of the performance metrics.
Van Den Dries, T, Ingelberts, H, Boulanger, S & Kuijk, M 2019, A 5ps resolution, 8.6ns delay range digital delay line using combinatorial redundancy. in 2019 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME). IEEE, pp. 21-24, 15th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 15/07/19.
Van Den Dries, T., Ingelberts, H., Boulanger, S., & Kuijk, M. (2019). A 5ps resolution, 8.6ns delay range digital delay line using combinatorial redundancy. In 2019 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME) (pp. 21-24). IEEE.
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title = "A 5ps resolution, 8.6ns delay range digital delay line using combinatorial redundancy",
abstract = "A novel digital delay line architecture is presented, which is able to achieve a high resolution of 5 ps and a wide delay range of 8.6 ns simultaneously. It does so by combining elements of digital and analog delay locked loops and uses a replica circuit to compensate for temperature variations. Furthermore, accurate and precise delay steps with 3.8 ps RMS jitter are obtained by using combinatorial redundancy. Its overall performance is superior to state-of-the-art approaches, which make a trade-off for at least one of the performance metrics.",
author = "{Van Den Dries}, Thomas and Hans Ingelberts and Sven Boulanger and Maarten Kuijk",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
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language = "English",
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booktitle = "2019 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)",
publisher = "IEEE",
note = "15th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME2019 ; Conference date: 15-07-2019 Through 18-07-2019",
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