A 1-GS/s 11-bit ADC with 55-dB SNDR, 250-mW power realized by a high bandwidth scalable time-interleaved architecture

A time-interleaved ADC architecture that eliminates the need to correct timing offsets and is yet scalable to high sampling rates is presented. To eliminate timing skews, a Nyquist rate sampling switch is used, which is followed by subsampled, double-sampled time-interleaved sample-and-hold (SIH) stages. This circuit is configured with a special clocking scheme that reduces the loading of the interleaved S/Hs on the Nyquist rate sampling switch, making this scalable to high sampling rates. The subsampled ADCs. (sub-ADCs) in this design use a 3.5-bit/stage pipelined architecture. This 1-GS/s 11-bit ADC achieves 55-dB peak SNDR, 58.6-dB SNR, consumes 250-mW core power, and occupies a core area of 3.5 mm(2). This circuit is implemented in a dual-gate 1.2 V/2.5 V, 0.13-mu m logic CMOS process.