caa a22 4500 60620590X CHVBK 20210128101009.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00034-014-9901-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00034-014-9901-7 A 10-Bit, 12 ps Resolution CMOS Time-to-Digital Converter Dedicated to Ultra-Fast Optical Timing Applications [Elektronische Daten] [Moez Kanoun, Mohamed Attouch, Yves Bérubé-Lauzière, Réjean Fontaine] This paper reports the design of a 10-bit, high-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) based on Vernier residues amplification which is a novelty. This TDC architecture allows the measurement of wide time intervals with high picosecond-range resolution. The key benefits of the proposed TDC are that it reduces conversion jitter and provides more design flexibility to enhance matching performances of delay cells and thus reach high conversion linearity regardless of the process technology, which is a strong aspect of the approach. Simulations results show that the TDC achieves a timing resolution of 12 ps rms in a long 12.5 ns timing window, a low core power consumption of 4.8 mW and estimated differential and integral nonlinearities (DNL and INL) of 0.73 and 2.02 LSB with a standard deviation of 0.17 and 0.94 LSB respectively. The TDC, implemented in 0.13 mm CMOS technology, occupies a total silicon area of 1.83 $$\times $$ × 2.23 mm $$^2$$ 2 including pads. Such a TDC will find useful applications in tomographic systems, where several time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) channels need to be used in a massively parallel configuration such as in diffuse optical tomography or in time-of-flight positron emission tomography. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Time-to-digital converter nationallicence Time-correlated single photon counting nationallicence Diffuse optical tomography nationallicence Front-end electronics for detector readout nationallicence Instrumentation and methods for time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy nationallicence Kanoun Moez Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut Attouch Mohamed Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut Bérubé-Lauzière Yves Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut Fontaine Réjean Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/4(2015-04-01), 1129-1148 0278-081X 34:4<1129 2015 34 34 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-014-9901-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-014-9901-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kanoun Moez Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Attouch Mohamed Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bérubé-Lauzière Yves Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fontaine Réjean Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/4(2015-04-01), 1129-1148 0278-081X 34:4<1129 2015 34 34