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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2015.40.4.613

Design of a Low Power 10bit Flash SAR A/D Converter  

Lee, Gi-Yoon (Inha University Department of Electronic Engineering)
Kim, Jeong-Heum (Inha University Department of Electronic Engineering)
Yoon, Kwang-Sub (Inha University Department of Electronic Engineering)
Abstract
This paper proposed a low power CMOS Flash-SAR A/D converter which consists of a Flash A/D converter for 2 most significant bits and a SAR A/D converter with capacitor D/A converter for 8 least significant bits. Employment of a Flash A/D converter allows the proposed circuit to enhance the conversion speed. The SAR A/D converter with capacitor D/A converter provides a low power dissipation. The proposed A/D converter consumes $136{\mu}W$ with a power supply of 1V under a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and achieves 9.16 effective number of bits for sampling frequency up to 2MHz. Therefore it results in 120fJ/step of Figure of Merit (FoM).
Keywords
SAR ADC; Flash ADC; Low power;
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