Abstract:
This paper presents a low-voltage and power-efficient 10 bit successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The input-range-adaptive (IRA) swi...View moreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper presents a low-voltage and power-efficient 10 bit successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The input-range-adaptive (IRA) switching method is proposed to reduce the average switching power of capacitive digital-to-analog convertor (DAC) by 91% compared with the conventional approach. By utilizing the comparator as a voltage-to-time converter (VTC) with a time-domain quantizer, the implemented early-late (E/L) detection circuit, the input range is detected to eliminate the unnecessary DAC switching power efficiently. A prototype ADC chip is fabricated in 90 nm CMOS technology with an active area of 0.038 mm
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. At 0.35-to-0.5 V supply voltage and 0.3-to-2 MS/s sampling rate with a Nyquist input, the ADC achieves a signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 55.5 dB to 56.3 dB and a corresponding effective number of bits (ENOB) of 8.92 bit to 9.06 bit respectively with a power consumption of 0.3 μW to 2.5 μW and a resulting figure of merit (FoM) from 1.94 fJ/conversion-step to 2.32 fJ/conversion-step.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers ( Volume: 63, Issue: 12, December 2016)