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To realize pipelined ADCs in deep-submicron processes, low voltage techniques must be developed to work around problems created by limited supply voltages such as the floating switch dead zone, reduced SNR, and reduced OpAmp performance. This thesis analyzes standard and low voltage design issues for pipelined ADCs and proposes a fully-differential implementation of the OpAmp Reset Switching Technique (ORST) as a suitable low voltage design solution. The technique uses a true fully differential MDAC structure with a switching common-mode feedback to achieve increased linearity and noise performance over the previously published ORST. A pipelined ADC test chip is designed to implement the fully differential ORST technique as a proof of concept. The design also includes a simple, low power input sampling network that also allows an increased input signal range and saves power by removing the dedicated, front-end S/H. Prototype performance demonstrates the fully differential ORST and shows sampling speeds of up to 60 MS/s, 51.4 dB SNR, 58.8 dB SFDR, and 49.7 dB SNDR for an 8-bit ENOB in a 0.18 um CMOS process with a 1 V supply. Little change in distortion is observed up to 90 MHz input frequency, demonstrating operation without a S/H.
This useful monograph presents a total of seven prototypes: two double-sampled S/H circuits, a time-interleaved ADC, an IF-sampling self-calibrated pipelined ADC, a current steering DAC with a deglitcher, and two pipelined ADCs employing the SO techniques.
Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) play an important role in most modern signal processing and wireless communication systems where extensive signal manipulation is necessary to be performed by complicated digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry. This trend also creates the possibility of fabricating all functional blocks of a system in a single chip (System On Chip - SoC), with great reductions in cost, chip area and power consumption. However, this tendency places an increasing challenge, in terms of speed, resolution, power consumption, and noise performance, in the design of the front-end ADC which is usually the bottleneck of the whole system, especially under the unavoidable low supply-voltage imposed by technology scaling, as well as the requirement of battery operated portable devices. Generalized Low-Voltage Circuit Techniques for Very High-Speed Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converters will present new techniques tailored for low-voltage and high-speed Switched-Capacitor (SC) ADC with various design-specific considerations.
With the fast advancement of CMOS fabrication technology, more and more signal-processing functions are implemented in the digital domain for a lower cost, lower power consumption, higher yield, and higher re-configurability. This has recently generated a great demand for low-power, low-voltage A/D converters that can be realized in a mainstream deep-submicron CMOS technology. However, the discrepancies between lithography wavelengths and circuit feature sizes are increasing. Lower power supply voltages significantly reduce noise margins and increase variations in process, device and design parameters. Consequently, it is steadily more difficult to control the fabrication process precisely enough to maintain uniformity. The inherent randomness of materials used in fabrication at nanoscopic scales means that performance will be increasingly variable, not only from die-to-die but also within each individual die. Parametric variability will be compounded by degradation in nanoscale integrated circuits resulting in instability of parameters over time, eventually leading to the development of faults. Process variation cannot be solved by improving manufacturing tolerances; variability must be reduced by new device technology or managed by design in order for scaling to continue. Similarly, within-die performance variation also imposes new challenges for test methods. In an attempt to address these issues, Low-Power High-Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters specifically focus on: i) improving the power efficiency for the high-speed, and low spurious spectral A/D conversion performance by exploring the potential of low-voltage analog design and calibration techniques, respectively, and ii) development of circuit techniques and algorithms to enhance testing and debugging potential to detect errors dynamically, to isolate and confine faults, and to recover errors continuously. The feasibility of the described methods has been verified by measurements from the silicon prototypes fabricated in standard 180nm, 90nm and 65nm CMOS technology.
Pipelined architecture analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have become the architecture of choice for high speed and moderate to high resolution devices. Subsequently, different techniques of the fault diagnosis by built in self-test (BIST) system have been developed. This book gives a rigorous, theoretical and mathematical analysis for the design of pipelined ADCs, along with detailed practical aspects of implementing it in very large-scale integration (VLSI). In each chapter a unique fault diagnosis technique for pipelined ADC has been proposed. Chapter 1 discusses a 1.8V 10-bit 500 mega samples-per-second parallel pipelined ADC, describing the design of high speed, low power, low voltage ADC in CMOS technology. Chapter 2 introduces a BIST system where both the circuit and its diagnosis tool are implemented on the same chip. Chapter 3 examines the design of an oscillation-based BIST system for a 1.8V 8-bit 125-mega samples per second pipelined ADC. Chapter 4 focuses on the evaluation of dynamic parameters of a pipelined ADC with an oscillation-based BIST. Chapter 5 covers reconfigurable BIST architecture for pipelined ADCs. The book is an ideal reference for graduate students and researchers within electrical, electronics and computer engineering.
This book shows that digitally assisted analog to digital converters are not the only way to cope with poor analog performance caused by technology scaling. It describes various analog design techniques that enhance the area and power efficiency without employing any type of digital calibration circuitry. These techniques consist of self-biasing for PVT enhancement, inverter-based design for improved speed/power ratio, gain-of-two obtained by voltage sum instead of charge redistribution, and current-mode reference shifting instead of voltage reference shifting. Together, these techniques allow enhancing the area and power efficiency of the main building blocks of a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) based stage, namely, the flash quantizer, the amplifier, and the switched capacitor network of the MDAC. Complementing the theoretical analyses of the various techniques, a power efficient operational transconductance amplifier is implemented and experimentally characterized. Furthermore, a medium-low resolution reference-free high-speed time-interleaved pipeline ADC employing all mentioned design techniques and circuits is presented, implemented and experimentally characterized. This ADC is said to be reference-free because it precludes any reference voltage, therefore saving power and area, as reference circuits are not necessary. Experimental results demonstrate the potential of the techniques which enabled the implementation of area and power efficient circuits.
With the ever-increasing demand for portable devices used in applications such as wireless communication, mobile computing, consumer electronics, etc., the scaling of the CMOS process to deep submicron dimensions becomes more important to achieve low-cost, low-power and high-performance digital systems. However, this downscaling also requires similar shrinking of the supply voltage to insure device reliability. Even though the largest amount of signal processing is done in the digital domain, the on-chip analog-to-digital interface circuitry (analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters) is an important functional block in the system. These converters are also required to operate with low-voltage supply. In this thesis, design techniques for low-voltage and low-power analog-to-digital converters are proposed. The specific research contributions of this work include (1) introduction of a new low-voltage switching technique for switched- capacitor circuit design, (2) development of low-voltage and low-distortion delta- sigma modulator, (3) development of low-voltage switched-capacitor multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC), (4) a new architecture for the low-power Nyquist rate pipelined ADC design. These design techniques enable the implementation of low-voltage and low-power CMOS analog-to-digital converters. To demonstrate the proposed design techniques, a 0.6 V, 82 dB, 2-2 cascaded audio delta-sigma ADC, a 0.9 V, 10-bit, 20MS/s CMOS pipelined ADC and a 2.4 V, 12-bit, 10MS/s CMOS pipelined ADC were implemented in standard CMOS processes.
Pipelined ADCs have seen phenomenal improvements in performance over the last few years. As such, when designing a pipelined ADC a clear understanding of the design tradeoffs, and state of the art techniques is required to implement today's high performance low power ADCs.