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Architecture and FPGA Implementation of Digital Time-to-Digital Converter for Sensing Applications

Systems and Control 2025-08-13 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

Many application domains face the challenges of high-power consumption and high computational demands, especially with the advancement in embedded machine learning and edge computing. Designing application-specific circuits is crucial to reducing hardware complexity and power consumption. In these perspectives, this paper presents the design of a Digital Time-to-Digital converter (DTDC) based on multiple delay line topologies. The DTDC is implemented in VHDL for the Xilinx Artix-7 AC701 FPGA device. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the circuit in converting the input period along a wide range up to 1ps. The designed circuit is implemented with less than 1% of the resource utilization on the target FPGA device.

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@article{arxiv.2508.08725,
  title  = {Architecture and FPGA Implementation of Digital Time-to-Digital Converter for Sensing Applications},
  author = {Zeinab Hijazi and Fatima Bzeih and Ali Ibrahim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08725},
  year   = {2025}
}