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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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TIME DIFFERENCE AMPLIFIER USING CLOSED LOOP ADJUSTABLE FRACTIONAL GAIN CONTROL

Puttamreddy, Nithinsimha 08 May 2014 (has links)
As CMOS technologies advance to 22-nm dimensions and below, constructing analog circuits are difficult to design within permitted specifications. One of the reasons for this is a limit of voltage resolution. In this situation, time-mode processing is a technique that is believed to be well suited for solving many of these challenges. A primary advantage of this technique is the ability to achieve analog functions using digital logic structures. Time difference amplifiers (TDA) can be a key component to realize fine time solutions. TDA are an innovative method to improve the time resolution as well as the evolution of ADC. This thesis introduces a TDA that amplifies the input time difference between two signals by a fractional gain. The closed loop gain control system used in this work consists of a pseudo differential current starved delay element (PDCSDE) and a monotonic digitally controlled delay element (DCDE). By using these elements to create a delay chain and a control loop, the result is a stable fractional time difference gain (TD gain). The system was designed and simulated in 65nm process at 1.2V power supply. The measured results show that this TDA achieves a fractional TD gain offset lower than 1.3%, with supply variation of ±15%, and input range as wide as ±250ps. The new design was also more resilient to process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations

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