简介:Thispaperpresentsaschemetoidentifyandcompensatethetimingmismatchesbetweentwochannelsfortimeinterleavedphotonicanalog-to-digitalconverters(TIPADCs).Theimpactofelectro-opticsamplingisremovedbypreprocessingfirstly.ThenacalibrationmethodcombiningchoppingprocessingandaHilberttransformisproposedtoidentifythetimingmismatches,whichcanbefurthercompensatedbyusingvariousmaturecompensationalgorithms.Theprincipleoftheproposedmethodisderivedtheoretically.Theperformanceoftheschemeisanalyzedbysimulation.Theresultsshowthattheharmonicinducedbytimingmismatchescanbesuppressedbymorethan30dBusingtheproposedcorrectionscheme.
简介:Withtheincreaseoftheclockfrequencyandsiliconintegration,powerawarecomputinghasbecomeacriticalconcerninthedesignoftheembeddedprocessorandsystem-on-chip(SoC).Dynamicvoltagescaling(DVS)isaneffectivemethodforlow-powerdesigns.However,traditionalDVSmethodshavetwodeficiencies.First,theyhaveaconservativesafetymarginwhichisnotnecessaryformostofthetime.Second,theyareexclusivelyconcernedwiththecriticalstageandignorethesignificantpotentialfreeslacktimeofthenoncriticalstage.Thesefactorsleadtoalargeamountofpowerwaste.Inthispaper,anovelpipelinestructurewithultra-lowpowerconsumptionisproposed.Itcutsoffthesafetymarginandtakesuseofthenoncriticalstagesatthesametime.Aprototypepipelineisdesignedin0.13mtechnologyandanalyzed.Theresultshowsthatalargeamountofenergycanbesavedbyusingthisstructure.Comparedwiththefixedvoltagecase,50%oftheenergycanbesaved,andwithrespecttothetraditionaladaptivevoltagescalingdesign,37.8%oftheenergycanbesaved.