A synchronous and highly accurate all-digital duty-cycle corrector (ADDCC), which uses simplified dual-loop architecture, is presented in this paper. To explain the operational principle, a detailed circuit description and formula derivation are provided. To verify the proposed design, a chip was fabricated through the 0.18-µm standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor process with a core area of 0.091 mm2. The measurement results indicate that the proposed ADDCC can operate between 300 and 600 MHz with an input duty-cycle range of 40–60%, and that the output duty-cycle error is less than 1% with a root-mean-square jitter of 3.86 ps.
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Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 56(4S), p.04CF02
