2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Laser Scanner Chip Set for Accurate Perception Systems
Authors : Sami Kurtti, Jussi-Pekka Jansson, Juha Kostamovaara
Published in: Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2012
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper presents an integrated receiver channel and an integrated time-to-digital (TDC) converter fabricated in a 0.35
μ
m SiGe BiCMOS and in 0.35
μ
m CMOS technologies, respectively, that give the required performance for a pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) laser radar to be used in a laser scanner in automotive applications. The receiver-TDC chip set is capable to measure the positions and widths of three separate successive timing pulses with sub-ns level precision in a wide dynamic amplitude range of more than 1:10.000.