A 3mW 12b 10MS/s Sub-Range SAR ADC

被引:16
作者
Chen, Hung-Wei [1 ]
Liu, Yu-Hsun [1 ]
Lin, Yu-Hsiang [1 ]
Chen, Hsin-Shu [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Taiwan Univ, Grad Inst Elect Engn, Dept Elect Engn, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
来源
2009 IEEE ASIAN SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS CONFERENCE (A-SSCC) | 2009年
关键词
SAR ADC; sub-range; power efficiency;
D O I
10.1109/ASSCC.2009.5357201
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper presents a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) achieving high power efficiency by adopting sub-range concept. Overlapping range greatly relieves the accuracy requirement on the first 6 bit resolving in coarse conversion. The error made in the coarse conversion is recovered during the rest 7 bit resolving in fine conversion. Hence, it significantly reduces the capacitor array output settling time of most-significant-bit (MSB) capacitor switching, which is the speed bottleneck for traditional SAR ADC. A 3mW 12b 10MS/s sub-range SAR ADC is realized in 0.13-mu m CMOS process. The prototype circuit reaches SNDR 59.7dB at Nyquist input frequency. It occupies an active chip area of 0.096 mm(2).
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页码:153 / 156
页数:4
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