All digital pulsewidth control loop

作者:Huang, Hong-Yi*; Jan, Shiun-Dian; Pu, Ruei-Iun
来源:International Journal of Electronics, 2013, 100(3): 337-354.
DOI:10.1080/00207217.2012.713010

摘要

This work presents an all-digital pulsewidth control loop (ADPWCL). The proposed system accepts a wide range of input duty cycles and performs a fast correction to the target output pulsewidth. An all-digital delay-locked loop (DLL) with fast locking time using a simplified time to digital converter and a new differential two-step delay element is proposed. The area of the delay element is much smaller than that in conventional designs, while having the same delay range. A test chip is verified in a 0.18-mu m CMOS process. The measured duty cycle ranges from 4% to 98% with 7-bit resolution.