Title
A 0.5-1.1V 10B Adaptive Bypassing SAR ADC Utilizing Oscillation Cycle Information of VCO-Based Comparator
Abstract
VCO-based comparators generate both bit decisions as well as oscillation cycle information, whereas the latter has not been exploited in SAR ADCs. This work presents a SAR ADC using oscillation cycle as the thresholds for multiple bypass windows, which improves energy efficiency. PVT-induced variations are compensated by adaptive windowing. The implemented 40nm ADC is robust under wide supply voltages ranging 0.5-1.1V with 9.71b peak ENOB at 1.1V and 2.4fJ/c.-s. lowest FoM at 0.5V without any tuning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/VLSIC.2018.8502440
2018 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits
Keywords
Field
DocType
VCO-based comparator,multiple bypass windows,40nm ADC,bit decisions,oscillation cycle information,0.5-1.1V 10b adaptive bypassing SAR ADC,PVT-induced variations,energy efficiency,voltage 0.5 V to 1.1 V
Flight dynamics (spacecraft),Oscillation,Capacitor,Comparator,Computer science,Effective number of bits,Electronic engineering,Voltage-controlled oscillator,Ranging,Successive approximation ADC
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2158-5601
978-1-5386-4215-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhaoming Ding172.80
Xiong Zhou232.04
Qiang Li38121.66