[HTML][HTML] A Survey of Automotive Radar and Lidar Signal Processing and Architectures

L Giuffrida, G Masera, M Martina - Chips, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the development of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADASs) is driving
the need for more reliable and precise on-vehicle sensing. Radar and lidar are crucial in this …

[HTML][HTML] Time-to-digital converters and histogram builders in SPAD arrays for pulsed-LiDAR

V Sesta, A Incoronato, F Madonini, F Villa - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a 3D imaging technique widely used in
many applications such as augmented reality, automotive, machine vision, spacecraft …

128-channel high-linearity resolution-adjustable time-to-digital converters for LiDAR applications: Software predictions and hardware implementations

W Xie, Y Wang, H Chen, DDU Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a new calibration method, called the mixed-binning (MB) method, to
pursue high-linearity time-to-digital converters (TDCs) for light detection and ranging …

An 8.5 ps resolution, cyclic Vernier TDC using a stage-gated ring oscillator and DWA-based dynamic element matching in 28 nm CMOS

VN Nguyen, XT Pham, JW Lee - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Herein, we present a cyclic Vernier time-to-digital converter (TDC) using a stage-gated ring
oscillator (SGRO) and data-weighted averaging (DWA) dynamic element matching (DEM) …

Design and performance of a 16-channel coarse-fine TDC prototype ASIC

J Qin, D Guo, L Zhao, S Lan, Y Wang, Q An - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a prototype of a 16-channel Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) based on
the coarse-fine architecture for a small animal Position Emission Tomography (PET) system …

[HTML][HTML] A Study on the Effect of Temperature Variations on FPGA-Based Multi-Channel Time-to-Digital Converters

AH Alshehry, SM Alshahry, AK Alhazmi… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
We describe a study on the effect of temperature variations on multi-channel time-to-digital
converters (TDCs). The objective is to study the impact of ambient thermal variations on the …

A 2.4 GHz power receiver embedded with a low-power transmitter and PCE of 53.8%, for wireless charging of IoT/Wearable devices

A Hejazi, BG Jang, RE Rad, JW Jo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 2.4 GHz and high-efficiency wireless power receiver (Rx) integrated
with a low-power transmitter (Tx) for wireless charging of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) or …

An all-digital low-power, low-frequency GRO-based time to digital converter for biomedical applications

E Zafarkhah, M Zare, NS Anzabi-Nezhad… - … Integrated Circuits and …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, an all-digital, 10-bit, low-power Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) is proposed for
use in biomedical applications. To reduce the area and power consumption, as well as …

Analysis, quantification, and discussion of the approximations introduced by pulsed 3-D LiDARs

S Cattini, D Cassanelli, G Di Loro… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Light detection and rangings (LiDARs) are considered essential for the environmental
sensing required by most advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), including …

A 12-bit, 27.8-ps resolution, Anti-PVT variation multi-parallel sampling based coarse-fine TDC for LiDAR sensors

X Lai, M Liu, C Liu - Microelectronics Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a multi-parallel sampling based coarse-fine time-to-digital converter
(TDC) with sub-gate delay resolution, large measurement range and high conversion rate …