Failure Mechanism and Sampling Frequency Dependency on TID Response of SAR ADCs
| Autor: | Bruno L. Costa, Helmut Puchner, Nilberto H. Medina, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, M. A. Guazzelli, Carlos J. Gonzalez, Diego N. Machado, Rafael Galhardo Vaz, O. L. Gonçalez, Tiago R. Balen, Alexis C. Vilas Bôas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
020208 electrical & electronic engineering Spice Successive approximation ADC Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY 02 engineering and technology Converters 020202 computer hardware & architecture law.invention body regions Capacitor Sampling (signal processing) law Robustness (computer science) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electronic engineering Node (circuits) Hardware_ARITHMETICANDLOGICSTRUCTURES Electrical and Electronic Engineering Leakage (electronics) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Electronic Testing. 37:329-343 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0727 0923-8174 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10836-021-05952-2 |
| Popis: | This paper describes the main failure mechanism of charge redistribution Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) under radiation. Results of two different radiation experiments (gamma and X-ray) each considering two identical 130nm, 8-bit SAR ADCs, operating with distinct sampling rates, showed that lower sampling frequencies cause the converters to fail at lower accumulated dose, while increasing the sampling frequency increases the converters robustness to radiation. A SPICE model of a SAR ADC is used to simulate radiation induced leakage effects, considering the same technology node and operating conditions of the tested converters. A very good agreement between simulation results and gamma irradiation experimental data allows us to explain the main failure mechanism, which is related to leakage in switches connected to the programmable capacitor array of the internal DAC of the converter. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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