Circuitry and method for measuring time interval with ring...

Optics: measuring and testing – Range or remote distance finding – With photodetection

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C356S005020, C356S005030, C356S004010

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10891168

ABSTRACT:
A circuitry for measuring a time interval with ring oscillator has a ring oscillator formed by a plurality of delay switching units, a counter and an encoder. Wherein, the ring oscillator generates a plurality of oscillating signals when receives a pulse signal used to turn on or turn off the ring oscillator. The counter can count the numbers of the oscillating signal during an active period of the pulse signal to generate a counting value. In addition, the encoder encodes the oscillation signals generated by a plurality of delay switching unit with a certain interval of delay time. Therefore, when the pulse signal is disabled to lead to turn off the ring oscillator, one can obtain the time interval of the pulse signal based on the encode data and the counting value.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5619134 (1997-04-01), Watanabe et al.
patent: 5812427 (1998-09-01), Nonoyama et al.

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