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Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are key building blocks in time-based mixed-signal systems, used for the digitization of analog signals in time domain. Some commonly used TDC structures are summarized in this chapter. By carefully analyzing their advantages and performance constraints, it has been concluded that in order to design a megagray radiation-tolerant TDC, an innovative and reliable architecture must be developed. More technical details regarding the investigation of this new TDC type will be given in Chap. 4. In order to obtain a fare comparison between the TDC proposed in this book and other state-of-the-art TDCs, performance measures of TDCs are also given in this chapter.
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Cao, Y., Leroux, P., Steyaert, M. (2015). Background on Time-to-Digital Converters. In: Radiation-Tolerant Delta-Sigma Time-to-Digital Converters. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11842-0_2
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