Fully Integrated APPC and PCD for DToF Driver with high-resolution
On-Chip Oscilloscope
Abstract
This paper presents a voltage-mode direct time-of-flight (DToF) driver
with high resolution auto-peak-power controller (APPC) and peak-current
detector (PCD), utilizing on-chip oscilloscope (OCO) technology. The OCO
supports both optical input for APPC and electrical input for PCD. The
optical input detects laser diode (LD) peak power through photodiode
(PD) first, and then feeds back to the boost converter to adjust laser
diode supply voltage (LDVCC) to reach the target peak optical power. The
electrical input detects the peak current of the LD to prevent the APPC
from adapting to excessive output caused by the abnormal operation of
the PD or LD. The X-coordinate of OCO has an 11-bit precision. It can
detect pulse widths ranging from 500 ps to 10 ns. The test result shows
that, the variation of optical power can be controlled within
2\% in the temperature range of 25-85 ℃ with APPC
function.