A 1.8V 50-MS/s 10-bit 0.18-um CMOS Pipelined ADC without SHA

A 50-MS/s 10-bit pipelined ADC with 1.2Vpp differential input range is proposed in this paper. The designed pipelined ADC consists of eight stage of 1.5bit/stage, one stage of 2bit/stage, digital error correction block, bias & reference driver, and clock generator. 1.5bit/stage is consists of sub-ADC, DAC and gain stage, Specially, a sample-and hold amplifier (SHA) is removed in the designed pipelined ADC to reduce the hardware and power consumption. Also, the proposed bootstrapped switch improves the Linearity of the input analog switch and the dynamic performance of the total ADC. The reference voltage was driven by using the on-chip reference driver without external reference. The proposed pipelined ADC was designed by using a 0.18um 1-poly 5-metal CMOS process with 1.8V supply. The total area including the power decoupling capacitor and power consumption are $0.95mm^2$ and 60mW, respectively. Also, the simulation result shows the ENOB of 9.3-bit at the Nyquist sampling rate.

본 논문은 1.2Vpp differential 입력 범위를 가지는 50-MS/s 10-hit pipelined ADC를 소개한다. 설계된 pipelined ADC는 8단의 1.5bit/stage, 1단의 2bit/stage와 digital correction 블록, bias circuit 및 reference driver, 그리고 clock generator로 구성된다. 1.5bit/stage는 sub-ADC, DAC, gain stage로 구성된다. 특히, 설계된 pipelined ADC에서는 hardware와 power consumption을 줄이기 위해 SHA를 제거하였으며, 전체 ADC의 dynamic performance를 향상시키기 위해 linearity가 개선된 bootstrapped switch를 사용하였다. Sub-ADC를 위한 reference 전압은 외부에서 인가하지 않고 on-chip reference driver에서 발생시킨다. 제안된 pipelined ADC는 1.8V supply, $0.18{\mu}m$ 1-poly 5-metal CMOS 공정에서 설계되었으며, power decoupling capacitor를 포함하여 $0.95mm^2$의 칩 면적을 가진다. 또한, 60mW의 전력소모를 가진다. 또한, Nyquist sampling rate에서 9.3-bit의 ENOB를 나타내었다.