Title
128-GS/s ADC Front-End with Over 60-GHz Input Bandwidth in 22-nm Si/SiGe FDSOI CMOS
Abstract
The analog front-end of a 6-to-8 bit 128-GS/s SAR ADC architecture with record 60-GHz input bandwidth is presented. It includes the data path, 25% duty-cycle dc-32 GHz quadrature clock generator, 4 master, and 32 slave track-and-hold (T&H) circuits formed with CMOS series switches. Each of the 32 slave CMOS T&Hs drives either a 50-Ω output buffer (for testing) or a 30-fF hold capacitor, representative of the load provided by each of the 32 SAR sub-ADCs. To achieve record bandwidth and sampling rate, the data distribution network and the singleended-to-differential clock amplifier use novel 0.8-V n-MOS and 1.2-V p-MOS Cherry-Hooper buffers with good common-mode and supply rejection beyond 100 GHz, validated through smalland large-signal measurements. The 32-GHz quadrature clock generator is realized with a novel 80-GHz input bandwidth, 0.8-V quasi-CML static divider, followed by inductively-peaked CMOS logic circuits. The total power consumption of the analog frontend is 320 mW of which 120 mW are consumed by the data sampling interleaver and 200 mW by the clock generation unit. It occupies a total die area of 0.65 mm × 0.37 mm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/BCICTS.2018.8550842
2018 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
analog-to-digital converter,broadband amplifier,CMOS track and hold,FDSOI,mm-wave,quadrature clock generator,time-interleaving
Conference
978-1-5386-6503-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alireza Zandieh120.86
Naftali Weiss210.38
The'Linh Nguyen310.72
David Haranne410.38
Sorin P. Voinigescu522153.57
David Harame610.38