A 10-bit 2.33 fJ/conv. SAR-ADC with high speed capacitive DAC switching using a novel effective asynchronous control circuitry

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A 10-bit 2.33 fJ/conv. SAR-ADC with high speed capacitive DAC switching using a novel effective asynchronous control circuitry

Year : 2019

Publisher : Springer New York LLCbarbara.b.bertram@gsk.com

Source Title : Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

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Abstract

Successive-approximation-register (SAR) ADC has gained popularity owing to its low power consumption in the growing field of ADC development. This work describes such a structure through the use of a novel low offset comparator thereby reducing the non-linearity performance along with significant improvement in energy-delay metric. A high speed control circuitry is introduced to improve the overall frequency of operation of SAR-ADC minimizing its speed limitation. Capacitive based digital-to-analog converter is used that switches in alternate cycles to reduce the static power dissipation. The ADC architecture is designed in 45-nm CMOS technology at layout of 0.0139mm2. The extracted results show that the proposed design is a reliable framework to ascertain the effectiveness of SAR-ADC with a faster performance. The results demonstrate an improvement of 47.75% in figure-of-merit. SNDR and SFDR are found to be 57.2 dB and 61.4 dB respectively at input frequency of 10 MHz. The sampling frequency is taken as 1 GHz with a power supply of 1 V.