A 0.31–1 GHz Fast-Corrected Duty-Cycle Corrector With Successive Approximation Register for DDR DRAM Applications

摘要

This brief presents a duty cycle corrector (DCC) using a binary search algorithm with successive approximation register (SAR). The proposed DCC consists of a duty-cycle detector, a duty-cycle adjuster, its controller and an output buffer. In order to achieve fast duty-correction with a small die area, a SAR-controller is exploited as a duty-correction controller. The proposed DCC circuit has been implemented and fabricated in a 0.13- $mu$m CMOS process and occupies 0.048 mm$^{2}$. The measured duty-cycle error for the 50% duty-rate is below $pm $1% (or $pm $10 pS) within $pm $320 pS external input duty-cycle error. The duty of output signal is corrected only with 14 cycles. This DCC operates from 312.5 MHz to 1 GHz and dissipates 3.2 mW at 1 GHz.