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.     

An 8 bit, 100 kS/s,switch-capacitor DAC SAR ADC for RFID applications

An 8 bit switch-capacitor DAC successive approximation analog to digital converter (SAR-ADC) for sensor-RFID application is presented in this paper. To achieve minimum chip area, maximum simplicity is imposed on capacitive DAC; replacing capacitor bank with only a one switch-capacitor circuit. The regulated dynamic current mirror (RDCM) design is introduced to provide stabilized current. This invariable current from RDCM, charging or discharging the only capacitor in circuit is controlled by pulse width modulated signal to realize switch capacitor DAC. The switch control scheme is built using basic AND gates to generate the control signals for RDCM. Only one capacitor and reduced transistor count in digital part reduces the silicon area occupied by the ADC to only 0.0098 mm². The converter, designed in GPDK 90 nm CMOS, exhibits maximum sampling frequency of 100 kHz & consumes 6.75 µW at 1 V supply. Calculated signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) at 1 V supply and 100 kS/s is 48.68 dB which relates to ENOB of 7.79 bits. The peak values of differential and integral nonlinearity are found to be +0.70/−0.89 LSB and +1.40/−0.10 LSB respectively. Evaluated figure of merit (FOM) is 3.87×10²⁰, which show that the proposed ADC acquires minimal silicon area and has sufficiently low power consumption compared to its counterparts in RFID applications.     

An 8-b 100-MSample/s CMOS pipelined folding ADC

Although cascading reduces the number of folders used in folding analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), it demands wider bandwidth. The pipelining scheme proposed in this work greatly alleviates the wide bandwidth requirement of the folding amplifier. The pipelining is implemented with simple differential-pair folders. The key idea is to use odd multiples of folders with distributed interstage track/holds cooperatively with an algorithm for coding and digital error correction for the nonbinary system. The pipelined folding ADC prototyped using 0.5-μm CMOS exhibits a differential nonlinearity (DNL) of ±0.4 LSB and an integral nonlinearity (INL) of ±1.3 LSB at 100 MSample/s. The chip occupies 1.4 mm×1.2 mm in active area and consumes 165 mW at 5 V     

8 bit 400 MS/s CMOS折叠插值结构ADC的设计

折叠插值结构是高速ADC设计中的常用结构。提出了一种新的在折叠插值结构ADC中只对THA进行时间交织的技术,可以在基本不增加芯片功耗和面积的情况下,使ADC的系统速度提高近1倍。位同步技术可以保证粗分和细分通路之间的同步,在位同步的基础上设计了新的编码方式。基于上述技术设计了8 bit 400 MS/s CMOS折叠插值结构ADC,核心电路电流为110mA,面积仅1mm×0.8mm,Nyquist采样频率下SNDR为47.2dB,SFDR为57.1dB。     

单通道8bit1.4GS/s折叠内插ADC

基于0.18 μm CMOS工艺设计并实现了一种8 bit 1.4 GS/s ADC.芯片采用多级级联折叠内插结构降低集成度,片内实现了电阻失调平均和数字辅助失调校准.测试结果表明,ADC在1.4GHz采样率下,有效位达6.4bit,功耗小于480 mW.文章所提的综合校准方法能够有效提高ADC的静态和动态性能,显示出...     

5 V, 8 bit, 100 MS/s fully differential CMOS sample-and-holdamplifier

A 5 V, 100 MS/s fully differential CMOS sample-and-hold amplifier (SHA) with 8 bit accuracy is proposed. Based on the stability limitations of closed-loop SHAs studied in a previous paper (see Int. J. Electron., vol. 78, no. 5, p. 907-910, 1995), the proposed SHA is implemented by an open-loop structure using the `gain-enhanced unity-gain amplifier' to avoid the stability problem and achieve higher operation speed. Simulation results which agree well with experimental results have been obtained to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed circuit     

采用SAR结构的8通道12位ADC设计

本文设计实现了一个8通道12位逐次逼近型ADC。转换器内部集成了多路复用器、并/串转换寄存器和复合型DAC,实现了数字位的串行输出。整体电路采用HSPICE进行仿真,转换速率为133KSPS,转换时间为7.5μs。通过低功耗设计,工作电流降低为2.8mA。芯片基于0.6μmBiCMOS工艺完成版图设计,版图面积为2.5×2.2mm2。     

An 8-bit 12.5-GSample/s SiGe ADC

This paper describes the design of a high-speed 8-bit Analog to digital converter (ADC) used in direct IF sampling receivers for satellite communication systems in a 0.25 μm, 190 GHz SiGe BiCMOS process. A high resolution front-end track-and-hold amplifier (THA), a low impedance reference and interpolation resistive ladder and high resolution comparators enable the ADC to achieve good performance for input frequencies of up to one-quarter of the sampling rate. The final post layout simulated system features an ENOB of 7.2-bits at an input frequency of 3.125 GHz and a sampling rate of 12.5 GS/s with a FOM of 12.9 pJ per conversion. Both DNL and INL are within 0.5 and 1 LSB, respectively. The converter occupies 10 mm² and dissipates 14 W from a 3.3 V supply. The THA and the comparator, as the most critical building blocks affecting the overall performance of the ADC, were implemented experimentally and fully characterized in order to verify their performance and to ascertain the possibility of implementing the complete ADC. The THA occupies an area of 0.5 mm². It features a SNDR of 47 dB or 7.5-bits ENOB for a 3 GHz bandwidth, a hold time of 21 ps with a droop rate of 11 mV/80 ps and a power dissipation of 230 mW from a 3.3 V supply. The comparator occupies an area of 0.38 mm² and exhibits an input sensitivity of ±2 mV, an input offset voltage of 1.5 mV, latch and recovery times of 19 and 21 ps, respectively, and a power dissipation of 150 mW from a 3.3 V supply. The experimental results are in good agreement with simulation and expected specifications and indicate that both circuits are suitable for the implementation of the ADC and help to validate that the 8-bit 12.5 GS/s ADC is feasible for implementation in a 0.25 μm SiGe process.     

一种1.5 V 8位100 MS/s电流舵D/A转换器

基于新型的低压与温度成正比(PTAT)基准源和PMOS衬底驱动低压运算放大器技术,采用分段温度计译码结构设计了一种1.5V8位100MS/s电流舵D/A转换器,工艺为TSMC0.25μm2P5MCMOS。当采样频率为100MHz,输出频率为20MHz时,SFDR为69.5dB,D/A转换器的微分非线性误差(DNL)和积分非线性误差(INL)的典型值分别为0.32LSB和0.52LSB。整个D/A转换器的版图面积为0.75mm×0.85mm,非常适合SOC的嵌入式应用。     

14 bit 50 ms/s 0.18 μm CMOS pipeline ADC based on digital error calibration

Described is a 14 bit 50 MS/s CMOS four-stage pipeline A/D converter (ADC)-based on a digital code-error calibration. The proposed calibration technique measures the capacitor mismatch errors of the front-end multiplying DAC (MDAC) with the back-end pipeline stages while the measured code errors are stored in memory and corrected in the digital domain during normal conversion. The calibration needs the increased power dissipation and chip area of 1.4 and 10.7 , respectively, compared to a 14 bit uncalibrated conventional pipeline ADC. The prototype ADC fabricated in a 0.18 um CMOS process occupies an active die area of 4.2 mm² and consumes 140 mW at 1.8 V and 50 MS/s. After calibration, the measured DNL and INL of the ADC are improved from 0.69 to 0.39 LSB and from 33.60 to 2.76 LSB, respectively.     

A 5 V, 6-b, 80 Ms/s BiCMOS flash ADC

A 5 V single supply, 6-bit flash A/D converter (ADC) has been developed that supports sampling rates of up to 80 Ms/s. The converter is optimized to operate in undersampling applications where the ADC has to deliver greater than 5.2 Effective Number Of Bits (ENOB's) with input frequencies well beyond Nyquist. Excellent dynamic linearity performance has been achieved with input frequencies up to 75 MHz and a gain flatness of better than 0.1 dB is obtained over the input signal spectrum of 50 MHz-95 MHz. This ADC is fabricated on a 1.0 μm advanced BiCMOS process that features trench-isolated bipolar devices with an f_t of 10 GHz     

1.8 V 10 bit 40 MS/s的流水线模数转换器

设计了一个10 bit,40 MS/s流水线模数转换器,适用于无线传感器网络(WSN)嵌入式芯片中.基于对电容失配的非线性影响的分析,提出了每级多比特的结构,使ADC具有很好的线性度.片内集成了参考电压源,大大减少了外围电路的数量.芯片采用SMIC 0.18μm CMOS工艺实现,在40 MS/s采样率下,电路微分非线性(DNL)最大0.42 LSB,积分非线性(INL)最大0.93 LSB,有效精度(ENOB)最高达9 bit.电路使用1.8 V电压供电,核心面积1.5mm2,核心电路功耗73 mW.     

一款12位5 kS/s逐次逼近型模数转换器的设计

提出了一种模拟域的前台校准技术,据此设计了一款12位精度的模数转换器(ADC)。芯片采用全定制叉指电容来实现电容阵列,并在TSMC 65nm工艺下进行了流片验证。芯片的内核面积仅为0.2 mm2,测试数据显示,在5kHz转换速率时信噪失真比(SNDR)为62dB,无杂散动态范围(SFDR)为76dB,在1.2V电源电压下功耗仅为112nW。     

A 14-bit 100-Msample/s subranging ADC

This paper describes a 14-b analog-to-digital converter designed in a complementary bipolar process. Although it uses a fairly traditional three-stage subranging architecture, several nontraditional techniques are incorporated to achieve 14 bits of performance at a clock rate of 100 MHz. For linearity, the most critical of these is wafer level trimming of the first subrange digital-to-analog converter. Prototype silicon exhibits a spurious-free dynamic range of 90 dB through the Nyquist frequency and a signal-to noise ratio of 74 dB while dissipating 1.25 W     

8 bit 1.4 GS/s 模数转换器

超高速模数转换器(ADC)是软件无线电、高速数据采集和宽带数字化雷达的关键组成部分.附带校准技术的折叠内插ADC具有等同快闪(FLASH)ADC的高转换速度,是设计超高速ADC的最佳选择,但仍需综合考虑各项指标来时行校准方法设计及芯片架构优化.     

一种12位80 MS/s CMOS流水线ADC设计

介绍了一种12 bit 80 MS/s流水线ADC的设计,用于基带信号处理,其中第一级采用了2.5 bit级电路,采样保持级采用了自举开关提高线性,后级电路采用了缩减技术,节省了芯片面积.采用了折叠增益自举运放,优化了运放的建立速度,节省了功耗.芯片采用HJTC0.18μm标准CMOS工艺,1.8 V电压供电,版图面积2.3 mm × 1.4 mm.版图后仿真表明,ADC在8 MHz正弦信号1 V峰值输入下,可以达到11.10 bit有效精度,SFDR达到80.16 dB,整个芯片的功耗为155 mW.     

13 bit 50 MS/s CMOS流水线ADC的设计

介绍了一种新的流水线ADC校准算法,并利用该校准算法完成了一个13 bit,50 MS/s流水线ADC的设计.该校准算法对级电路的比较器和后级电路的输出码字的出现频率进行统计,得到各个级电路输出位的真实权值,可以同时校准多种非理想因素如运放有限增益、电容失配等造成的误差.电路采用UMC 0.18μm混合工艺,1.8 V电源电压.通过SPECTRE仿真获得晶体管级级电路的输入输出关系,将其结果导入顶层行为级模型进行校准.仿真结果表明,在50 MHz采样率、5 MHz输入信号下,通过校准算法SFDR由44.1 dB提升至102.2 dB,SNDR由40.9 dB提升至79.9 dB,ENOB由6.5 bit提升至12.98 bit.     

An experimental BiCMOS video 10 bit ADC

The possibility of realizing a high-quality, low-power, and low-cost video 10 bit analog-to-digital converter is examined utilizing BiCMOS circuit and process technology. A single-power-supply, 10 bit 10 MHz operation, 500 mW power dissipation, and a 4.2×6.2 mm chip size with 4200 elements were obtained     

A 1-V 100-MS/s 8-bit CMOS Switched-Opamp Pipelined ADC Using Loading-Free Architecture

A 1-V, 8-bit pipelined ADC is realized using multi-phase switched-opamp (SO) technique. A novel loading-free architecture is proposed to reduce the capacitive loading and to improve the speed in low-voltage SO circuits. Employing the proposed loading-free pipelined ADC architecture together with double-sampling technique and a fast-wake-up dual-input-dual-output switchable opamp, the ADC achieves 100-MS/s conversion rate, which to our knowledge is the fastest ADC ever reported at 1-V supply using SO technique, with performance comparable to that of many high-voltage switched-capacitor (SC) ADCs. Implemented in a 0.18-mum CMOS process, the ADC obtains a peak SNR of 45.2 dB, SNDR of 41.5 dB, and SFDR of 52.6 dB. Measured DNL and INL are 0.5 LSB and 1.1 LSB, respectively. The chip dissipates only 30 mW from a 1-V supply