High Speed Curve Interpolating D/A Converter

This paper presents a design of high speed curve interpolating D/A converter. We improve 8-bit data to 12-bit data, so the data resolution increases 16 times than that of original 8-bit data. The curve interpolator is developed from the linear interpolator. The simulation speed curve interpolator is about 500 MHz. The chip is fabricated by 0.8 m double-metal single poly CMOS technology. The active interpolation size of chip is 1 × 1 mm². The power dissipation is 200 mWatts at 5volt and 500 MHz for simulation result and 80 mWatts at 5 volt and 50 MHz for measurement result. The errors of interpolating result of curve interpolators are about 20 times less than that of original signal.