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美国模拟器件公司(ADI)近期推出业界首款14 bit双模数转换器(ADC)。这款创新的集成电路(IC)是ADI公司提供的各种分辨率和速率的新系列高速双ADC的旗舰产品。该系列ADC采用超小型9mm×9mm芯片级封装(CSP)，其引脚与采样速率为20～120兆次采样/秒(MSPS)分辨率为10 bit、12 bit和14 bit ADC兼容。     

一种提高ADC分辨率的插值滤波方法

基于过采样和求均值原理设计插值滤波器，来提高ADC的分辨率和SNR。根据奈奎斯特采样定理，对插值滤波器进行了采样频率分析、量化误差分析，并得出分辨率与OSR的关系。通过对插值滤波器的信噪比分析，得到噪声功率与ADC位数之间的函数关系。本文对方法的有效性进行了阐述，指出插值滤波改善SNR和提高信号测量的有效位数的前提条件。实践证明可以采用插值滤波技术，通过软件实现提高仪表分辨率和信噪比，降低仪表成本。     

用于视频图像传感器的12 bit 60 MS/s流水线模数转换器

介绍了一种12 bit 60 MS/s流水线模数转换器(ADC),该转换器使用采样保持电路,将连续变化的模拟信号通过一定时间间隔的采样,以实现信号的准确量化,利用增益自举运放提高信号建立的线性度;采用每级1.5 bit精确度的流水线结构实现冗余编码,降低比较器失调电压对精确度的影响,同时提出一种新型的消除静态功耗的预放大比较器结构。该流水线ADC芯片采用华力55 nm 互补金属氧化物(CMOS)工艺进行电路和版图设计。对后仿真结果进行快速傅里叶变换(FFT)分析得到：动态参数无杂散动态范围(SFDR)为86.18 dB,信噪比(SNR)为72.91 dB,信纳比(SNDR)为72.8 dB,有效位数(ENOB)为11.72 bit。     

一种12 bit 200 MS/s 低功耗 SAR-TDC ADC北大核心

为了满足低电压条件下高速高精度采样需求，设计了一种电压-时域两级混合结构流水线模数转换器(ADC)。该流水线ADC的第一级逐次逼近型(SAR) ADC将电压转换为8 bit数字，残差电压变换为时域延时信息后，第二级4.5 bit时间数字转换器(TDC)将延时转换，最终校准输出，实现12 bit精度转换。通过采用多电压供电、改进残差电压转移和放大器结构，以及优化时间判决器，提升了ADC的动态性能和采样速度，降低了采样功耗。该ADC基于40 nm CMOS工艺设计和仿真。采样率为200 MS/s时，功耗为9.5 mW,动态指标SNDR、SFDR分别达到68.4 dB、83.6 dB,优值为22 pJ·conv-1·step-1,能够满足低功耗高速采样的应用需求。     

8位CMOS双通道流水线ADC仿真设计

设计了一种8位1.2V,1GS/s双通道流水线A/D转换器(ADC)。所设计ADC对1.5位增益D/A转换电路(MDAC)中的流水线双通道结构进行改进,其中设置有双通道流水线时分复用运算放大器和双/单通道快闪式ADC,以简化结构并提高速度;在系统前置采样/保持器中加设由单一时间信号驱动的开关线性化控制(SLC)电路,以解决两条通道之间的采样歪扭和时序失调问题。用90nm标准CMOS工艺对所设计的流水线ADC进行仿真试验,结果表明,室温下所设计ADC的信噪比SNR为32.7dB,无杂散动态范围SFDR为42.3dB,它的分辨率、功耗PD和采样速率SR分别为8位、23mW和1GS/s,从而满足了高速、高精度和低功耗的应用需要。     

一种用于列并行ADC的改进型栅压自举开关

CMOS图像传感器中列并行模数转换器(ADC)的面积受到严格限制,ADC采样保持电路中的栅压自举开关也必须满足每列的面积要求。在传统单电容型栅压自举开关的基础上,利用源极跟随器在降低开关导通电阻的同时提高了电路的可靠性;通过体效应补偿电路降低输入变化对导通电阻的影响;同时,在列共用偏置电路上增加控制开关,减少不必要的功耗。提出的电路使用UMC 0.11μm CMOS工艺实现,电源电压为3.3 V,仿真结果表明开关导通电阻降低了约28.6%,输入范围内电阻变化率小于1.2%,有效位数提高了1 bit,而面积只增加了15%。流片后测试结果显示,以20 MS/s的采样频率对1.97 MHz的输入进行采样,测得信噪比(SNR)、无杂散动态范围(SFDR)和有效位数(ENOB)分别为85.8 dB、71.1 dB和11.5 bit。     

8位 80 MS/s低功耗流水线型ADC的设计

采用每级为1.5位或者2位精度的7级流水线结构,即7级子ADC,设计了一款8位80 MS/s的低功耗模数转换电路。利用每一级子ADC中的钟控开关及电容实现采样保持功能,节省了整个ADC的采样保持电路模块。在满足整个ADC性能情况下,采用了逐级缩放技术,减小了芯片面积和功耗。版图设计中,考虑了每一级ADC中电容及放大器的对称性,减小了电容失配对整个ADC性能的影响。采用0.18 μm CMOS工艺,在输入信号为11.25 MHz,采样速率为80 MHz的条件下,信噪比(SNR)为49.5 dB,有效位数(ENOB)为7.98 bits,整个ADC的芯片面积为0.56 mm²,典型工作电流为22 mA。     

新品发布

集成电路Integrated Circuits 4与8通道同步采样24位工业ADC ADS1274与ADS1278具备多种特性,其中包括62kHz带宽、0.8μV/C失调漂移以及高达111dB的信噪比(SNR)。四种工作模式实现了多种优化特性,如128kS/s的数据传输速率、111dB SNR的分辨率以及7mW/通道的低功耗模式。     

基于功耗优化的流水线ADC研制

提出了一种使流水线模数转换器功耗最优的系统划分方法。采用Matlab进行模拟,以信噪比(SNR)为约束,得出一定精度条件下,流水线ADC各子级分辨率和各级采样电容缩减因子的不同选取组合;又以功耗为约束,从以上多种组合中找到满足最低功耗的流水线ADC结构划分方法。基于以上分析,在SMIC 0.35μm工艺条件下,设计了一个10 bit、采样率20 MS/s的流水线ADC,并流片验证。2.1 MHz输入频率下测试,SFDR=73 dB、ENOB=9.18 bit,模拟部分核心功耗102.3 mW。     

基于C8051F系列单片机提高ADC分辨率的方法

单片机的很多应用都需要使用模／数转换器（ADC）进行测量。本文着重介绍C8051F系列单片机的AD转换子系统以及提高AD转换分辨率的方法,内容包括根据要增加的分辨率计算过采样率、根据要增加的SNR增加过采样率。并举实例介绍过采样和求均值的实现方法。     

A reconfigurable two-stage cyclic ADC for low-power applications in 3.3 V 0.35 µm CMOS

This article presents a reconfigurable pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using a two-stage cyclic configuration. The ADC consists of two stages with 1.5 effective bit resolution, two reference circuits for voltage and current biasing, and a clock generator and timing circuit. Throughout the development of this ADC, several techniques were combined for reducing the power consumption as well as for preserving the converter linearity. To reduce the power consumption, the circuit has a single operational trans-conductance amplifier shared by both pipeline stages. To keep conversion linearity, circuits such as the bootstrapped complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transmission gates and a robust comparator topology were implemented. The circuit can be configured to perform conversion between 7 and 15 bit resolutions, and it works with the master clock frequency in the range of 1 kHz to 40 MHz. The circuit has been prototyped in a 3.3 V 0.35 µm CMOS process and consumes 14.1 mW at 40 MHz and 8 MSample/s sampling rate. With this resolution and sampling rate, it achieves 60.1 dB SNR, 56.57 dB SINAD and 9.1 bit ENOB at 0.666 MHz input frequency and 53.6 dB SNR, 52.4 dB SINAD and 8.6 bit ENOB at 3.85 MHz input frequency. The technological FOM obtained was 13.2 A s/m².     

基于MATLAB的新型Pipeline ADC的建模和仿真

在MATLAB/Simulink的平台上,设计并实现了一种新的10 bit Pipeline ADC的系统仿真模型.针对2 bit,共9级的结构的精度不足以及4 bit首级结构的功耗较大的特点,提出了一种首级3 bit,共8级的结构.这种结构可以实现精度和功耗的平衡.经过系统仿真,在输入信号为10 MHz,采样时钟频率为40 MHz时,系统最大的SNR=60.36 dB,SFDR=82.177dB.创建的系统模型可为ADC系统中的误差和静态特性研究提供借鉴.     

14位流水线A/D转换器采样电容值的优化

针对14位流水线A/D转换器中各级采样电容值的优化问题,提出了在系统模型中加入热噪声模型的方法。在14位流水线A/D转换器结构下,通过系统级仿真,得出采样保持放大器(SHA)的采样电容Cs必须大于10 pF,第一级余数放大器的采样电容必须大于2 pF,才能使有限的采样电容引起系统信噪比的衰减小于1 dB的结论。     

1GS/s pipelined delta sigma modulator ADC using residue averaging technique

A two stage pipelined delta sigma modulator (PDSM) ADC is presented for broadband, high-resolution applications, which incorporate a first, order delta sigma modulator in each stage and combines the most significant bits of the first stage with the second stage output. A key feature of the PDSM ADC architecture is a SINC filter residue averaging technique, which results in mitigating the effect of track/hold and analog, subtract circuit errors, DAC non-linearity, and component mismatch. The input bandwidth of 62.5 MHz and the sampling frequency of 1 GHz result in an over sampling ratio of 8 for the first order modulators. MATLAB simulations for the two stage ADC show 13–15 bit resolution. A transistor level design in 0.18 um CMOS for the two stage ADC was captured with Cadence tools and simulations show 12 bit resolution with a 50 MHz input.     

An 8/10 bit 200/100MS/s configurable asynchronous SAR ADC

This paper presents an asynchronous 8/10 bit configurable successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The proposed ADC has two resolution modes and can work at a maximal sampling rate of 200 and 100MS/s for 8 bit mode and 10 bit mode respectively. The ADC uses a custom-designed 1 fF unit capacitor to reduce the power consumption and settling time of capacitive DAC, a dynamic comparator with tail current to minimize kickback noise and improve linearity. Moreover, asynchronous control technique is utilized to implement the ADC in a flexible and energy-efficient way. The proposed ADC is designed in 90 nm CMOS technology. At 100MS/s and 1.0 V supply, the ADC consumes 1.06 mW and offers an ENOB of 9.56 bit for 10 bit mode. When the ADC operates at 8 bit mode, the sampling rate is 200MS/s with 1.56 mW power consumption from 1.0 supply. The resulted ENOB is 7.84 bit. The FOMs for 10 bit mode at 100MS/s and 8 bit mode at 200MS/s are 14 and 34 fJ/conversion-step respectively.     

Relationship between ADC performance and requirements of digital-IF receiver for WCDMA base-station

The recent rapid development of digital wireless systems has led to the need for multistandard, multichannel radiofrequency (RF) transceivers. The paper presents the relationship between the performance of a bandpass-sampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and the requirements of a digital intermediate-frequency receiver for a wideband code-division multiple-access (WCDMA) base-station. As such, the ADC signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the derivation of the receiver sensitivity using the SNR/spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of the ADC, the effect of the ADC clock jitter and receiver linearity, plus the relationship between the receiver IF and the ADC sampling frequency are all analyzed. As a result, when a WCDMA base-station receiver has a data rate of 12.2 kbps, bit error rate (BER) of 0.001, and channel index, k, of 5 (sampling frequency of 122.88 MHz and IF of 92.16 MHz), the performance of a bandpass-sampling ADC was analytically determined to require a resolution of 14 bits or more, SNR of 66.6 dB or more, SFDR of 86.5 dBc or more, and total jitter of 0.2 ps or less, including internal ADC jitters and clock jitters.     

An Ultra Low Energy 12-bit Rate-Resolution Scalable SAR ADC for Wireless Sensor Nodes

A resolution-rate scalable ADC for micro-sensor networks is described. Based on the successive approximation register (SAR) architecture, this ADC has two resolution modes: 12 bit and 8 bit, and its sampling rate is scalable, at a constant figure-of-merit, from 0-100 kS/s and 0-200 kS/s, respectively. At the highest performance point (i.e., 12 bit, 100 kS/s), the entire ADC (including digital, analog, and reference power) consumes 25 muW from a 1-V supply. The ADC's CMRR is enhanced by common-mode independent sampling and passive auto-zero reference generation. The efficiency of the comparator is improved by an analog offset calibrating latch, and the preamplifier settling time is relaxed by self-timing the bit-decisions. Prototyped in a 0.18-mum, 5M2P CMOS process, the ADC, at 12 bit, 100 kS/s, achieves a Nyquist SNDR of 65 dB (10.55 ENOB) and an SFDR of 71 dB. Its INL and DNL are 0.68 LSB and 0.66 LSB, respectively     

高速ADC电路性能评估系统

文章简要地介绍了高速ADC电路性能评估系统的整体设计方案、系统的硬件设计以及PC应用软件的设计方法。评估系统硬件包括ADC电路评估板、数据采集子板、PCI-E采集卡三块子板,并分别阐述了各子板的功能框图、结构组成和设计要点。系统应用软件采用图形化显示界面,经实际使用表明,该高速ADC电路评估系统结构灵活、性能稳定可靠,方便更换不同的ADC评估板来测试不同的ADC电路,既可用于分辨率为8-16bit、采样频率500MHz以内的高速ADC电路性能评估,也可以用于多达64通道、125M的高速数据采集。     

一种流水线型ADC的时序改进技术研究

对一种流水线型模数转换器(ADC)的时序电路进行了改进研究。改进时序延长了余量增益单元MDAC部分加减保持相位的时长,可以在不增加功耗与面积的情况下,将一种10位流水线型ADC在20 MS/s采样率下的有效位(ENOB)从9.3位提高到9.8位,量化精度提高了5%;将该ADC有效位不低于9.3位的最高采样率从21 MS/s提高到29 MS/s,转换速度提高了35%。ADC的采样频率越高,改进时序带来的效果越显著。该项技术特别适用于高速高精度流水线型ADC,也为其他结构ADC的高速高精度设计提供思路。     

基于过采样技术提高ADC分辨率探析

近年来,许多系统都需要使用模／数转换器ADC进行测量,将模拟信号转换为数字信号。为了简化系统电路和降低生产成本,在充分利用ADC采样速度的条件下,通过过采样技术提高ADC的分辨率。这里基于ADC的基本结构,采用叠加成形函数的方法,介绍了用过采样的方法来达到较高分辨率和信噪比,得出采样技术可以在不使用昂贵的ADC芯片的情况下提高模／数转换的分辨率。