Design of High-Speed ADC with distributed Track-and-Hold Pre-comparator in CMOS 0.18µm

Autor: Yu-Lun Chung, 鍾毓倫
Rok vydání: 2009
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 97
This work presents a new flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with distributed track-and-hold pre-comparators (THPCs). Utilizing the proposed architecture, the loading capacitances of the ADC front-end sampling sub-circuits can be markedly reduced, thereby improving operation speed. In a standard 0.18µm CMOS process, a 1.6GS/s 6-bit flash ADC is implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed distributed THPC architecture. The equivalent input capacitance of each input port of the proposed flash ADC is only 400fF, which is an easily driven interface. Furthermore, clocked timing buffers are inserted in the encoder to accelerate the operational speed of the proposed flash ADC. Post-layout simulation results demonstrate that the proposed ADC achieves an SNDR of 35.81dB, which is 5.66 ENOB at 1.6GS/s with a 793.8MHz input signal frequency. The proposed ADC consumes 310mW from a 1.8-V supply at full operating speed.
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