Title
A 9-bit 80 MS/s Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter With a Capacitor Reduction Technique
Abstract
A 9-bit 80 MS/s successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which is suitable for low power and a small area, is presented. The 9-bit capacitor array consists of only 16 unit capacitors and a coupling capacitor due to the proposed binary-weighted split-capacitor arrays with a merged-capacitor switching technique. The proposed ADC includes a comparator with offset cancellation and uses digital calibration for error correction. The ADC is implemented in a 65-nm complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology and occupies an active area of 0.068 mm2 with a reference buffer. The differential and integral nonlinearities of the ADC are less than 0.37 and 0.40 LSB, respectively. The ADC shows a signal-to-noise-distortion ratio of 50.71 dB, a spurious-free dynamic range of 66.72 dB, and an effective number of bits of 8.13 bits with a 78 MHz sinusoidal input at 80 MS/s. The ADC consumes 3.4 mW with the reference buffer at a 1.0-V supply and achieves a figure of merit of 78 fJ/conversion step.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TCSII.2010.2048387
IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
small area,error correction,successive approximation register (sar) analog-to-digital converter (adc),analogue-digital conversion,complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology,adc consumes,size 65 nm,proposed binary-weighted split-capacitor array,binary-weighted split-capacitor arrays,frequency 78 mhz,digital calibration,successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter,unit capacitor,offset cancellation,merged-capacitor switching technique,integral nonlinearity,9-bit capacitor array,proposed adc,reference buffer,capacitors,voltage 1 v,coupling capacitor,cmos digital integrated circuits,merged-capacitor switching (mcs),power 3.4 mw,successive approximation register analog-to-digital,differential nonlinearity,comparator,capacitor reduction technique,split-capacitor array,active area,65-nm complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology,signal-to-noise-distortion ratio,calibration,spurious free dynamic range,dynamic range,figure of merit,switches,cmos technology,capacitance,effective number of bits
Integral nonlinearity,Comparator,Capacitor,Differential nonlinearity,Control theory,Analog-to-digital converter,Electronic engineering,Effective number of bits,Figure of merit,Successive approximation ADC,Electrical engineering,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
7
1549-7747
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
1.92
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Young-Kyun Cho1195.05
Young-Deuk Jeon29813.50
Jae-Won Nam3296.41
Jong-Kee Kwon415823.10