• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.9
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• pp.63-73
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• 2015

This work proposes a 2-channel time-interleaved (T-I) 10b 120MS/s pipeline SAR ADC minimizing offset mismatch between channels without any calibration scheme. The proposed ADC employs a 2-channel SAR and T-I topology based on a 2-step pipeline ADC with 4b and 7b in the first and second stage for high conversion rate and low power consumption. Analog circuits such as comparator and residue amplifier are shared between channels to minimize power consumption, chip area, and offset mismatch which limits the ADC linearity in the conventional T-I architecture, without any calibration scheme. The TSPC D flip-flop with a short propagation delay and a small number of transistors is used in the SAR logic instead of the conventional static D flip-flop to achieve high-speed SAR operation as well as low power consumption and chip area. Three separate reference voltage drivers for 4b SAR, 7b SAR circuits and a single residue amplifier prevent undesirable disturbance among the reference voltages due to each different switching operation and minimize gain mismatch between channels. High-frequency clocks with a controllable duty cycle are generated on chip to eliminate the need of external complicated high-frequency clocks for SAR operation. The prototype ADC in a 45nm CMOS technology demonstrates a measured DNL and INL within 0.69LSB and 0.77LSB, with a maximum SNDR and SFDR of 50.9dB and 59.7dB at 120MS/s, respectively. The proposed ADC occupies an active die area of 0.36mm2 and consumes 8.8mW at a 1.1V supply voltage.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.12 s.354
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• pp.55-64
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• 2006

This work proposes a calibration-free 14b 70MS/s 0.13um CMOS ADC for high-performance integrated systems such as WLAN and high-definition video systems simultaneously requiring high resolution, low power, and small size at high speed. The proposed ADC employs signal insensitive 3-D fully symmetric layout techniques in two MDACs for high matching accuracy without any calibration. A three-stage pipeline architecture minimizes power consumption and chip area at the target resolution and sampling rate. The input SHA with a controlled trans-conductance ratio of two amplifier stages simultaneously achieves high gain and high phase margin with gate-bootstrapped sampling switches for 14b input accuracy at the Nyquist frequency. A back-end sub-ranging flash ADC with open-loop offset cancellation and interpolation achieves 6b accuracy at 70MS/s. Low-noise current and voltage references are employed on chip with optional off-chip reference voltages. The prototype ADC implemented in a 0.13um CMOS is based on a 0.35um minimum channel length for 2.5V applications. The measured DNL and INL are within 0.65LSB and l.80LSB, respectively. The prototype ADC shows maximum SNDR and SFDR of 66dB and 81dB and a power consumption of 235mW at 70MS/s. The active die area is $3.3mm^2$.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.2 no.2 s.3
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• pp.278-284
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• 1998

This paper describes a l0b CMOS A/D converter (ADC) for HDTV applications. The proposed ADC adopts a typical multi-step pipelined architecture. The proposed circuit design techniques are as fo1lows: A selective channel-length adjustment technique for a bias circuit minimizes the mismatch of the bias current due to the short channel effect by supply voltage variations. A power reduction technique for a high-speed two-stage operational amplifier decreases the power consumption of amplifiers with wide bandwidths by turning on and off bias currents in the suggested sequence. A typical capacitor scaling technique optimizes the chip area and power dissipation of the ADC. The proposed ADC is designed and fabricated in s 0.8 um double-poly double-metal n-well CMOS technology. The measured differential and integral nonlinearities of the prototype ADC show less than ${\pm}0.6LSB\;and\;{\pm}2.0LSB$, respectively. The typical ADC power consumption is 119 mW at 3 V with a 40 MHz sampling rate, and 320 mW at 5 V with a 50 MHz sampling rate.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.27-30
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• 2002

10-bit 해상도, 10MS/s의 ADC를 Stage 당 1.5-Bit의 Resolution을 가지는 Redundant signed digit(RSD) 방식의 파이프라인 구조를 이용하여 설계하였다. Error Correction Logic을 사용함으로써 비교기를 Coarse하게 설계하였고 잔류 전압 증폭기의 최적 Scaling을 통하여 일반적인 ADC에 비해 성능 저하 없이 효율적으로 소비 전력을 감소시켰다. 또한, Charge Pump의 선택적 사용을 통해 기생 커패시턴스의 영향을 최소화함으로써 잔류전압 증폭기의 출력 전압 특성을 향상 시켰다. 삼성 0.35u CMOS 공정 파라미터를 이용하여 입력 전압 $-1{\sim}1V$, 공급 전압 $-1.5{\sim}1.5V$에서 18.73mW로 설계하였으며 HSPICE로 시뮬레이션 하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.975-978
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 비디오 신호 인터페이스를 위해 10비트 50MHz ADC 를 설계하였으며 DCL(digital-error correction logic)을 갖는 3-3-3-4 구조의 파이프라인 방식을 사용하였다. SHA(sample and hold amplifier)와 MDAC (multiplying digital-to-analog converter)에 쓰이는 증폭기는 높은 이득을 갖도록 gain-boosting 기법을 적용하였으며, 전력소모와 면적을 줄이기 위해 capacitor scaling 기법을 적용하였다. 본 ADC 는 0.35 μm double-poly four-metal n-well CMOS 공정으로 설계 및 제작하였으며, 전체 회로는 3.3V 단일 전원 전압에서 동작하도록 설계하였다. 측정 결과 5MHz 의 입력을 인가하였을 때 SNDR 은 56.7dB, 전체 전력 소모는 112mW 이며, 입출력 단의 패드를 포함한 전체 칩 면적은 2.6mm×2.6mm이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5C
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• pp.395-402
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• 2008

In this paper, an I/Q channel 12bits 40MS/s Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter that is able to apply to WLAN/WMAN system is proposed. The proposed ADC integrates DLL based duty-correction circuit which corrects the fluctuations in the duksty cycle caused by miniaturization of CMOS devices and faster operating speeds. It is designed as a 1% to 99% input clock duty cycle could be corrected to 50% output duty cycle. The prototype ADC is implemented in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS n-well 1-poly 6-metal process and dissipates 184mW at 1.8V single supply The SNDR of the proposed 12bit ADC is 52dB and SFDR of 59dBc(@Fs=20MHz, Fin=1MHz) is measured.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.1709-1716
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• 2007

In this paper, ADC with multi SHA structure is proposed for high speed operation. The proposed structure incorporates a multi SHA block that consists of multiple SHAs of identical characteristics in parallel to improve the conversion speed. The designed multi SHA is operated by non-overlapping clocks and the sampling speed can be improved by increasing the number of multiplexed SHAs. Pipelined A/D converter, applying the proposed structure, is designed to satisfy requirement of analog front-end of VDSL modem. The measured INL and DNL of designed A/D converter are $0.52LSB{\sim}-0.50LSB$ and $0.80LSB{\sim}-0.76LSB$, respectively. It satisfies the design specifications for VDSL modems. The simulated SNR is about 66dB which corresponds to a 10.7 bit resolution. The power consumption is 24.32mW.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.8-16
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• 2010

This paper presents a design of the successive approximation ADC(SA-ADC) applicable to a midium-low speed analog-front end(AFE) for the maximum 15MS/s CCD image processing. SA-ADC is effective in applications ranging widely between low and mid data rates due to the large power scaling effect on the operating frequency variations in some other way of pipelined ADCs. The proposed design exhibits some distinctive features. The "differential capacitor-coupling scheme" segregates the input sampling behavior from the sub-DAC incorporating the differential input and the sub-DAC output, which prominently reduces the loading throughout the signal path. Determining the MSB(sign bit) from the held input data in advance of the data conversion period, a kind of the signed successive approximation, leads to the reduction of the sub-DAC hardware overhead by 1 bit and the conversion period by 1 cycle. Characterizing the proposed design in a 3.3 V $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS process by Spectre simulations verified its validity of the application to CCD analog front-ends.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.8
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• pp.61-70
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• 2009

A 10b 30MS/s pipelined ADC operating under 1V power supply is presented. It utilizes a switched-RC based input sampling circuit and a resistive loop to reset the feedback capacitor in the multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) for the low-voltage operation. Cascaded switched-RC branches are used to achieve accurate grain of the MDAC for the first stage and separate switched-RC circuits are used in the sub-ADC to suppress the switching noise coupling to the MDAC input The measured differential and integral non-linearities of the prototype ADC fabricated in a 0.13${\mu}m$, CMOS process are less than 0.54LSB and 1.75LSB, respectively. The prototype ADC achieves 54.1dB SNDR and 70.4dB SFDR with 1V supply and 30MHz sampling frequency while consuming 17mW power.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.435-442
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• 2010

The efficiency of the car's wiper blade has a great contribution to the guarantee of security. To guarantee the wiper blade's ability of getting rid of dust sticking on the glass surface, the qualities of lubricant, durability, heat resistant, low temperature, ozone resistant, chemical resistant must be good as well as it being noiseless. Like this, in order to improve the wiper's skills, it is essential to have a system that is able to assess and analyse the properties of the wiper. In this paper, to create a system that measures the car's wiper pressure, an analog/digital converter (ADC) that receives signals generated from the pressure sensor and transmits it to a personal computer is proposed. The designed ADC is one of the pipeline ADCs that can obtain fast movement rate and also a structure that can optimize the entire system's area as well as the consumption of strength.