Title
High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Ring-Oscillator for Analog-to-Digital Conversion
Abstract
Highly dependence of the power consumption with respect to the voltage supply makes current finer CMOS technologies become supplied with lower-than-1 V. Voltage-controlled-oscillator based analog-to-digital converters implemented with ring-oscillators scales properly with that requirement. However, conventional implementations of ring-oscillators limit the oscillation frequency due to the lack of available voltage to feed high currents. In this manuscript, we propose a novel circuit for a ring-oscillator that overcomes this issue. With only two devices between the supply nodes a delay cell is built. This allows us to reduce the voltage supply for certain oscillation requirements. In addition, the lower number of devices connected to the output nodes supposes lower parasitic capacitance and a reduction in the minimum achievable time delay, which increases the potential resolution. The proposed circuit is theoretically described and validated by simulation in a 65-nm CMOS process. Comparisons to the conventional implementations are made, showing improvements in terms of resolution, power, and area.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/DCIS51330.2020.9268623
2020 XXXV Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Analog-to-digital conversion,low overhead voltage,voltage-controlled oscillator,inverting CMOS cells
Conference
2471-6170
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-9133-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leidy Mabel Alvero-Gonzalez101.01
Luis Hernandez Corporales200.34
Eric Gutierrez3145.29