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Abstract
This paper presents a low-hardware consumption, resolution-configurable, automatically calibrating gray code oscillator time-to-digital converter (GCO-TDC) in Xilinx 16nm UltraScale+, 20nm UltraScale and 28nm Virtex-7 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The proposed TDC utilizes LUTs as delay elements and has several innovations: 1) a sampling matrix structure to improve the resolution. 2) a virtual bin calibration method (VBCM) to achieve configurable resolutions and automatic calibration. 3) hardware implementation of the VBCM in standard FPGA devices. We implemented and evaluated a 16-channel TDC system in all three FPGAs. The UltraScale+ version achieved the best resolution (least significant bit, LSB) of 20.97 ps with 0.09 LSB averaged peak-to-peak differential nonlinearity (DNLpk-pk). The UltraScale and Virtex-7 versions achieved the best resolutions of 36.01 ps with 0.10 LSB averaged DNLpk-pk and 34.84 ps with 0.08 LSB averaged DNLpk-pk, respectively.
Original language | English |
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Journal | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics |
Early online date | 17 May 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 17 May 2022 |
Keywords
- gray code oscillator (GCO)
- field programmable gate array (FPGA)
- low hardware consumption
- automatic calibration
- resolution-adjustable
- time-to-digital converter (TDC)
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SPRINT: A SuPer-Resolution time-resolved ImagiNg and specTroscopy facility for rapid biomolecular analysis
Li, D., Chamberlain, L., Chen, Y., Cunningham, M. R., Gould, G., Hoskisson, P., McConnell, G., Rattray, Z. & Van de Linde, S.
BBSRC (Biotech & Biological Sciences Research Council)
1/07/21 → 31/05/23
Project: Research