Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge

P Lecoq, C Morel, JO Prior, D Visvikis… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the seventies, positron emission tomography (PET) has become an invaluable
medical molecular imaging modality with an unprecedented sensitivity at the picomolar …

A low-spur fractional-N PLL based on a time-mode arithmetic unit

Z Gao, J He, M Fritz, J Gong, Y Shen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces a low-jitter low-spur fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) adopting a
new concept of a time-mode arithmetic unit (TAU) for phase error extraction. The TAU is a …

Radiation-tolerant all-digital PLL/CDR with varactorless LC DCO in 65 nm CMOS

S Biereigel, S Kulis, P Moreira, A Kölpin, P Leroux… - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the first fully integrated radiation-tolerant All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop
(PLL) and Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) circuit for wireline communication applications …

[HTML][HTML] Digitalized analog integrated circuits

Z Zhu, S Liu - Fundamental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital integrated circuits have significantly benefited from technology scaling down, while
conventional analog integrated circuits suffer from more design constraints. In recent years …

A power-efficient fractional-N DPLL with phase error quantized in fully differential-voltage domain

L Wu, T Burger, P Schönle… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a power-efficient low-jitter fractional-N digital phase-locked loop (DPLL)
that resolves phase error (PE) in the fully differential voltage (FDV) domain. Compared with …

A compact transformer-based fractional-N ADPLL in 10-nm FinFET CMOS

CC Li, MS Yuan, CC Liao, CH Chang… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we introduce a fractional-N all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) architecture
based on a single LC-tank, featuring an ultra-wide tuning range (TR) and optimized for ultra …

A 0.2-V three-winding transformer-based DCO in 16-nm FinFET CMOS

CC Li, MS Yuan, YT Lin, CC Liao… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, we introduce a 3.2-4 GHz three-winding transformer-based class-F digitally
controlled oscillator (DCO) with a DC-DC booster for energy harvesting applications. A π …

DTC Linearization via Mismatch-Noise Cancellation for Digital Fractional-N PLLs

E Helal, AI Eissa, I Galton - … on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital-to-time converter (DTC) based quantization noise cancellation (QNC) has recently
been shown to enable excellent fractional-PLL performance, but it requires a highly-linear …

Synchronization-phase alignment of all-digital phase-locked loop chips for a 60-GHz MIMO transmitter and evaluation of phase noise effects

M Salarpour, F Farzaneh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A phase-coherent technique for multiple all-digital phase-locked loops (ADPLLs) is
presented and developed in this paper to target a 57-63-GHz multiple-input multiple-output …

High-Performance CMOS Tunable Differential Active Inductor for RF applications

S Saad, F Haddad, AB Hammadi - … & Test of Integrated Micro & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Design of a CMOS compact tunable differential active inductor (DAI) suitable to low-cost and
multi-standard systems is presented. The structure uses only active components, based on …