A 15-bit 10-Msample/s Pipelined A/D Converter Based on Incomplete Settling Principle

Shuaiqi WANG
Fule LI
Yasuaki INOUE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.10    pp.2732-2739
Publication Date: 2006/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.10.2732
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications)
Category: Modelling, Systems and Simulation
Keyword: 
A/D conversion,  pipelined,  incomplete settling,  low power dissipation,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a 15-bit 10-MS/s pipelined ADC based on the incomplete settling principle. The traditional complete settling stage is improved to the incomplete settling structure through dividing the sampling clock of the traditional stage into two parts for discharging the sampling and feedback capacitors and completing the sampling, respectively. The proposed ADC verifies the correction and validity of optimizing ADCs' conversion speed without additional power consumption through the incomplete settling. This ADC employs scaling-down scheme to achieve low power dissipation and utilizes full-differential structure, bottom-plate-sampling, and capacitor-sharing techniques as well as bit-by-bit digital self-calibration to increase the ADC's linearity. It is processed in 0.18 µm 1P6M CMOS mixed-mode technology. Simulation results show that 82 dB SNDR and 87 dB SFDR are obtained at the sampling rate of 10 MHz with the input sine frequency of 100 kHz and the whole static power dissipation is 21.94 mW.


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