'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
Doi
Abstract
The evolution of Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology triggered the appearance of FPGAs with higher operating frequencies and large number of resources. Simultaneously, the evolution of the FPGAs design tools has simplified the development process, reducing the time to market. These factors made FPGA platforms attractive for several applications, including time-of-flight applications that require the implementation of Time-to-Digital Converters (TDC). This work presents a Nutt TDC, based on a coarse counter and a Tapped Delay Line, with 17.9 picoseconds resolution and 5.4 LSB differential nonlinearity (DNL), implemented in a Xilinx Zynq-7000 FPGA, to be used on LiDAR applications and pull-in time measuring in MEMS accelerometers systems.This work was supported by a Portuguese Scholarship
from FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Bosch
Car Multimedia, under the Advanced Engineering Systems
for Industry (AESI) doctoral program. (Scholarship ID:
PDE/BDE/114562/2016) and COMPETE and FCT: POCI-
01-0145-FEDER-007043 within the Project Scope:
UID/CEC/00319/201