A high-precision measurement method, based on multiple sampling, is proposed for the time interval of two signals in this study. A time interval measurement circuit integrated into the time-to-digital converter (TDC), is designed based on this highprecision measurement method. In the TDC, the authors use two identical delay lines as the holding module to ensure the two signals with a constant time interval. The TDC samples the two signals multiple times by a clock signal, whose period is shorter than that of the delay line. Consequently, the problem of limited resolution caused by a mismatch between delay lines in the delay-line structure can be avoided, and the precision of the output can be improved. The proposed TDC is designed and simulated in Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) 0.18 μm complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor process. Simulation results show that the differential non-linearity and the integral non-linearity are always less than one least significant bits. The proposed TDC achieves input dynamic range of 0-32.13 ns and time resolution of 9 ps.
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