Patent ID: 11857348
Assignee: HI LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 2:
3. The optical measurement system of claim 2, wherein:
the component is the TDC;
the signal generator comprises
a phase lock loop (PLL) circuit having a PLL feedback period, and
a precision timing circuit configured to generate output pulses having programmable temporal positions within the PLL feedback period, the signal comprising a sequence of the output pulses;

the directing of the signal generator to apply the signal to the component comprises directing the precision timing circuit to sweep the output pulses across a plurality of temporal positions; and
the generating of the characterization data comprises generating, based on timestamp symbols recorded by the TDC in response to the output pulses, data representative of a transfer curve that represents a characterization of one or more nonlinearities of the TDC.