Title
A 12-Bit 500-MS/s Current Steering CMOS DAC for High-Speed PLC Modems.
Abstract
A 12-bit 500-MS/s current steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for high-speed power line communication (PLC) modems is presented in this paper. The performance of current steering DAC is limited by the current cell mismatches and glitch problems caused by switching timing errors. In this paper, the current cell design procedure is presented to minimize random mismatches. Then, a new data-weighted averaging (DWA) technique with fewer glitches and low hardware complexity is proposed to compensate for the gradient mismatch. Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) improvement and low complexity are effectively achieved by employing both a row-column structure and a (CSA) structure as the floor plan of the proposed DAC. The proposed DAC is implemented in a standard 0.18-mu m CMOS process with an active area of 2.445 mm(2), which achieves a differential non linearity (DNL) of 0.25 LSB and an integral non-linearity (INL) of 0.19 LSB. Additionally, the SFDR increases by 13.2 dB (on average) when employing the proposed DWA technique. The total power consumption of the proposed DAC is 176 mW from a 1.8-V supply voltage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1142/S021812661650122X
JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Current steering DAC,current cell mismatch,dynamic element matching,DEM,data-weighted averaging,DWA,PLC modems
Glitch,Integral nonlinearity,Dynamic range,Differential nonlinearity,Computer science,Power-line communication,12-bit,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Spurious-free dynamic range
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
10
0218-1266
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chan-Keun Kwon142.57
junil moon263.83
Soo-Won Kim311629.86