Author:
Mao Xiangyu,Yang Fei,Wei Fang,Shi Jiawen,Cai Jian,Cai Haiwen
Abstract
Time-to-digital converter (TDC) is the key technology to realize accurate time delay measurement in high-precision optical fiber time-frequency transmission and synchronization, optical sensing and many scientific applications. The performance of FPGA-TDC based on the carry chain is sensitive to the operating temperature. This paper presents a parallel multichain cross segmentation method, without multitime measurements, which merges multichain into an equivalent chain, achieving low temperature coefficient and maintaining high precision. The equivalent chain breaks the limit of the intrinsic cell delay of a single carry chain, improves the precision and reduces the impact of temperature variation significantly. A two-channel TDC based on parallel multichain cross segmentation method is implemented in a 28 nm fabrication process Kintex-7 FPGA. The results show that the performance of TDC is improved with the increase of the number of chains. The 10-chain TDC with 1.3 ps resolution, 4.6 ps single-shot precision performs much better than the plain TDC with 11.4 ps resolution, 8.7 ps single-shot precision. The resolution is stable with 0.0002 ps/°C temperature coefficient under an operating temperature range from 25 °C to 70 °C. Moreover, the proposed method reduces the complexity of the circuit and the resource usage.
Funder
the National Key R&D Program of China
the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
Cited by
10 articles.
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