US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 20 for "High performance time-to-digital converter" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,853, issued on May 20, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High performance time-to-digital converter" was invented by Matthew Straayer (Boxborough, Mass.) and Lyn Mark Elzinga (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed high-performance time-to-digital converter (TDC) incorporates ratiometric signal quantization with correlated double sampling (CDS). The TDC includes an input voltage circuit that outputs an input voltage signal and a fractional reference voltage circuit that outputs a fractional reference voltage signal. The TDC also includes a quantizer circuit that provides a differ...