On-chip short-time interval measurement for high-speed signal timing characterization

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Original Version

1-1-2003

Abstract

We present in this paper an on-chip approach to obtain timing characterization for the ever faster high-speed communication systems. In the proposed short time interval measurement circuit, we use a time-to-digital converter, which consists of a charge pump, a comparator with hysteresis, a 6-bit digital counter, and a capacitor. During the measurement, we control a current source and a current sink to charge or discharge a common capacitor, and record the time length ratio of the charging and discharging process. Using this method, we can easily calculate most of the time-domain parameters. Because the measurement process is independent of the absolute value of the capacitor and current amplitude, this method minimizes the impact of the process variations.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Proceedings of the Asian Test Symposium

Volume

2003-January

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