J4 ›› 2014, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 57-64.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2014.06.010

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Programmable mlti-phase clock circuit with delay calibration

LIU Shubin1;ZHU Zhangming1;ZHAO Yang1;EN Yunfei2;LIU Lianxi1;YANG Yintang1   

  1. (1. School of Microelectronic, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2. Science and Technology on Reliability Physics and Application Technology of Electronic Component Laboratory, Guang Zhou  510610, China)
  • Received:2013-10-06 Online:2014-12-20 Published:2015-01-19
  • Contact: LIU Shubin E-mail:shuvin101@126.com

Abstract:

Based on the principle of the delay-locked loop (DLL), this paper introduces a programmable multi-phase clock circuit with a delay calibration loop. The proposed circuit offers a clock signal with a precision of 390ps and optimum timing for a variety of CCD signal processors. One cycle of the main clock is divided into 32 parts equally, while timing with a tunable duty cycle is generated by the programmable phase combiner. The increase in delay elements worsens the delay time error between different phases of the output signals, and hence a delay time calibration loop is applied to suppress this effect. In SMIC 0.18μm 3.3V CMOS process, with a 80MHz main clock, the post simulation results show that the proposed circuit generates an output clock with a 2%~98% duty cycle, a 1.14ps edge to edge jitter and a less than 5ps calibrated delay time error.

Key words: charge couple device, delay locked loop, delay calibration loop, programmable phase combiner