Abstract:
This article describes a fourth-order continuous-time (CT) bandpass (BP)- \Delta \Sigma capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) for full-CMOS sensors having ultrahigh-...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This article describes a fourth-order continuous-time (CT) bandpass (BP)- \Delta \Sigma capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) for full-CMOS sensors having ultrahigh-resolution and high-energy efficiency. To improve the resolution of \Delta \Sigma CDC, a CT instead of a discrete-time (DT) operation is employed to overcome a thermal noise limitation. Moreover, a BP- \Delta \Sigma modulator is used to save power consumption compared to lowpass (LP) or highpass (HP)- \Delta \Sigma Ms. In addition, a charge-domain digital-to-analog converter (DAC) at the input stage of the \Delta \Sigma M is proposed for low thermal noise and simplicity. An inverter-based amplifier is used for low power consumption and gain boosting circuit is added to increase dc gain of the amplifier. Implemented in 0.18~\mu \text{m} CMOS, the proposed CDC achieves a ultrahigh-resolution of 3.68 aFrms and the highest Schreier figure-of-merit (FoMS) of 183 dB which is 3.3 dB improvement over the recent state-of-the-art CDCs.
Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ( Volume: 58, Issue: 6, June 2023)