A high output swing current-steering DAC using voltage controlled current source
Autor: | Fengqi Yu, Qinjin Huang |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Engineering
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Zdroj: | Microelectronics Journal. 68:32-39 |
ISSN: | 0026-2692 |
Popis: | As the supply voltage decreasing to near 1V, the output swing of the CS-DAC (current-steering digital-to-analogue converter) is limited by the minimum biasing voltage of the current source array, which is approximately 0.4V. This voltage takes one-third of the 1.2V power supply, which makes the single-ended CS-DAC not practical. To eliminate the output swing limitation, a voltage-controlled current source (VCCS) is proposed to realize high-swing single-ended voltage output for CS-DAC. The VCCS has the same input voltage as the biasing voltage. It generates a matching output current to make the minimum output voltage of the single-ended CS-DAC be able to reach the ground. The VCCS adopts a cascode structure in the output path, thus its performance is independent of DAC output changes. Careful matching is made inside VCCS, as well as between VCCS and DAC. Consequently, this design is robust to the process, supply voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations. The proposed CS-DAC, implemented by 180-nm CMOS technology, has a 1V output swing under 1.251.5V power supply at 25C temperature. For all PVT variation corners, the measured minimum DAC output voltage, designed as 0.11V, varies between 0.05V and 0.113V. The measured DNL and INL are normally less than 0.2 LSB and 0.5 LSB, respectively. The measured slewing time for rising and falling step input are 80ns and 90ns, respectively. The measured total power consumption is 1.5mW. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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