Title
Sha-Less Pipelined Adc Converting 10th Nyquist Band With In-Situ Clock-Skew Calibration
Abstract
Conversion from dc to the 10th Nyquist band is enabled in a SHA-less, 10-b, 100-MS/s pipelined ADC by digitally calibrating the clock skew in the 3.5-b front-end stage. Architectural redundancy of pipelined ADC is exploited to extract skew information from the first-stage residue output with two out-of-range comparators and some simple digital logic; a gradient-descent algorithm is used to adaptively adjust the timing of the front-end sub-ADC to synchronize with that of the S/H. The 90-nm prototype consumes 12.2 mW and digitizes inputs up to 480 MHz (limited by testing equipment) without skew errors in experiments, whereas the same ADC fails at 130 MHz when the calibration is disabled. The measured SFDR is 71 dB at 20 MHz and 55 dB at 480 MHz.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/CICC.2010.5617406
IEEE CUSTOM INTEGRATED CIRCUITS CONFERENCE 2010
Keywords
Field
DocType
prototypes,gradient descent algorithm,pipelines,calibration,front end,gradient descent,digital logic,synchronization,clock skew
Synchronization,Comparator,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Spurious-free dynamic range,Redundancy (engineering),Clock skew,Skew,Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem,Calibration
Conference
Volume
Issue
Citations 
null
null
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.70
2
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pingli Huang111311.04
Szukang Hsien2204.88
Victor Lu3142.02
Peiyuan Wan4244.63
Seung-Chul Lee512418.27
Wenbo Liu611412.15
Bo-Wei Chen726230.12
Yung-Pin Lee810017.18
Wen-Tsao Chen9317.62
Tzu-Yi Yang107712.45
Gin-Kou Ma1114022.51
Yun Chiu1224132.85