针对传统逐次逼近型模/数转换器(Successive Approximation Analog to Digital Converter,SAR ADC)中的电压域比较器存在延迟大、功耗高等问题,本文设计了一款应用于SAR ADC的低功耗时间域比较器。该比较器通过引入高增益的时间放大器(T...针对传统逐次逼近型模/数转换器(Successive Approximation Analog to Digital Converter,SAR ADC)中的电压域比较器存在延迟大、功耗高等问题,本文设计了一款应用于SAR ADC的低功耗时间域比较器。该比较器通过引入高增益的时间放大器(Time Amplifier,TA)成功实现了相位积累速度的指数级增加,有效减小了输入信号相位脱离鉴相器的“死区”所需的振荡周期数,缩短了比较延迟,优化了比较的速度和功耗。该比较器基于65 nm CMOS工艺进行设计,在0.4 V电源电压下功耗仅5.24 nW,失调电压为5.99 mV。展开更多
A novel fully differential high speed high resolution low offset CMOS dynamic comparator has been implemented in the SMIC 0.18 μm process used for a sample-and-hold amplifier （SHA）-less pipelined analog-to-digital ...A novel fully differential high speed high resolution low offset CMOS dynamic comparator has been implemented in the SMIC 0.18 μm process used for a sample-and-hold amplifier （SHA）-less pipelined analog-to-digital converters （ADC）. Based on the analysis and optimization between delay time and offset, an enhanced reset architecture with transmission gate was introduced to speed up the comparison and reset procedure. Four inputs with two cross coupled differential pairs, reconstituted bias circuit for tail current transistor and common centroid layouts make the comparator more robust against mismatch and process variations. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed design achieves 1 mV sensitivity at 2.2 GHz sampling rate with a power consumption of 510 μW, while the mean offset voltage is equal to 10.244 mV.展开更多
A programmable high precision multiplying DAC （MDAC） is proposed. The MDAC incorporates a frequency-current converter （FCC） to adjust the power versus sampling rate and a programmable operational am- plifier （POT...A programmable high precision multiplying DAC （MDAC） is proposed. The MDAC incorporates a frequency-current converter （FCC） to adjust the power versus sampling rate and a programmable operational am- plifier （POTA） to achieve the tradeoff between resolution and power of the MDAC, which makes the MDAC suitable for a 12 bit SHA-less pipelined ADC. The prototype of the proposed pipelined ADC is implemented in an SMIC CMOS 0.18 μm 1P6M process. Experimental results demonstrate that power of the proposed ADC varies from 15.4 mW （10 MHz） to 63 mW （100 MHz） while maintaining an SNDR of 60.5 to 63 dB at all sampling rates. The differential nonlinearity and integral nonlinearity without any calibration are no more than 2.2/-1 LSB and 1.6/-1.9 LSB, respectively.展开更多
As the front-end preamplifiers in optical receivers, transimpedance amplifiers （TIAs） are commonly required to have a high gain and low input noise to amplify the weak and susceptible input signal. At the same time,...As the front-end preamplifiers in optical receivers, transimpedance amplifiers （TIAs） are commonly required to have a high gain and low input noise to amplify the weak and susceptible input signal. At the same time, the TIAs should possess a wide dynamic range （DR） to prevent the circuit from becoming saturated by high input currents. Based on the above, this paper presents a CMOS transimpedance amplifier with high gain and a wide DR for 2.5 Gbit/s communications. The TIA proposed consists of a three-stage cascade pull push inverter, an automatic gain control circuit, and a shunt transistor controlled by the resistive divider. The inductive-series peaking technique is used to further extend the bandwidth. The TIA proposed displays a maximum transimpedance gain of 88.3 dBΩ with the -3 dB bandwidth of 1.8 GHz, exhibits an input current dynamic range from 100 nA to 10 mA. The output voltage noise is less than 48.23 nV/√Hz within the -3 dB bandwidth. The circuit is fabricated using an SMIC 0.18 μm 1P6M RFCMOS process and dissipates a dc power of 9.4 mW with 1.8 V supply voltage.展开更多
A 10-bit 50 MS/s pipelined SAR ADC is presented which pipelines a 5-bit SAR-based MDAC with a 6-bit SAR ADC.The 1-bit redundancy relaxes the requirement for the sub-ADC decision in accuracy.The SAR-based and ＂half-g...A 10-bit 50 MS/s pipelined SAR ADC is presented which pipelines a 5-bit SAR-based MDAC with a 6-bit SAR ADC.The 1-bit redundancy relaxes the requirement for the sub-ADC decision in accuracy.The SAR-based and ＂half-gain＂ MDAC reduce the power consumption and core area.The dynamic comparator and SAR control logic are applied to reduce power consumption.Implemented in 180 nm CMOS,the fabricated ADC achieves 56.04 dB SNDR and 5mW power consumption from 1.8 V power supply at 50 MS/s.展开更多
A 14-bit,40-MHz analog front end（AFE） for CCD scanners is analyzed and designed.The proposed system incorporates a digitally controlled wideband variable gain amplifier（VGA） with nearly 42 dB gain range,a correlat...A 14-bit,40-MHz analog front end（AFE） for CCD scanners is analyzed and designed.The proposed system incorporates a digitally controlled wideband variable gain amplifier（VGA） with nearly 42 dB gain range,a correlated double sampler（CDS） with programmable gain functionality,a 14-bit analog-to-digital converter and a programmable timing core.To achieve the maximum dynamic range,the VGA proposed here can linearly amplify the input signal in a gain range from-1.08 to 41.06 dB in 6.02 dB step with a constant bandwidth.A novel CDS takes image information out of noise,and further amplifies the signal accurately in a gain range from 0 to 18 dB in0.035 dB step.A 14-bit ADC is adopted to quantify the analog signal with optimization in power and linearity.An internal timing core can provide flexible timing for CCD arrays,CDS and ADC.The proposed AFE was fabricated in SMIC 0.18 μm CMOS process.The whole circuit occupied an active area of 2.8×4.8 mm^2 and consumed360 mW.When the frequency of input signal is 6.069 MHz,and the sampling frequency is 40 MHz,the signal to noise and distortion（SNDR） is 70.3 dB,the effective number of bits is 11.39 bit.展开更多
文摘针对传统逐次逼近型模/数转换器(Successive Approximation Analog to Digital Converter,SAR ADC)中的电压域比较器存在延迟大、功耗高等问题,本文设计了一款应用于SAR ADC的低功耗时间域比较器。该比较器通过引入高增益的时间放大器(Time Amplifier,TA)成功实现了相位积累速度的指数级增加,有效减小了输入信号相位脱离鉴相器的“死区”所需的振荡周期数,缩短了比较延迟,优化了比较的速度和功耗。该比较器基于65 nm CMOS工艺进行设计,在0.4 V电源电压下功耗仅5.24 nW,失调电压为5.99 mV。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61234002,61006028)the National High-Tech Program of China(Nos.2012AA012302,2013AA014103)the PhD Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(No.20120203110017)
文摘A novel fully differential high speed high resolution low offset CMOS dynamic comparator has been implemented in the SMIC 0.18 μm process used for a sample-and-hold amplifier （SHA）-less pipelined analog-to-digital converters （ADC）. Based on the analysis and optimization between delay time and offset, an enhanced reset architecture with transmission gate was introduced to speed up the comparison and reset procedure. Four inputs with two cross coupled differential pairs, reconstituted bias circuit for tail current transistor and common centroid layouts make the comparator more robust against mismatch and process variations. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed design achieves 1 mV sensitivity at 2.2 GHz sampling rate with a power consumption of 510 μW, while the mean offset voltage is equal to 10.244 mV.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61234002,61006028)the National High-Tech Program of China(Nos.2012AA012302,2013AA014103)the PhDProgram Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(No.20120203110017)
文摘A programmable high precision multiplying DAC （MDAC） is proposed. The MDAC incorporates a frequency-current converter （FCC） to adjust the power versus sampling rate and a programmable operational am- plifier （POTA） to achieve the tradeoff between resolution and power of the MDAC, which makes the MDAC suitable for a 12 bit SHA-less pipelined ADC. The prototype of the proposed pipelined ADC is implemented in an SMIC CMOS 0.18 μm 1P6M process. Experimental results demonstrate that power of the proposed ADC varies from 15.4 mW （10 MHz） to 63 mW （100 MHz） while maintaining an SNDR of 60.5 to 63 dB at all sampling rates. The differential nonlinearity and integral nonlinearity without any calibration are no more than 2.2/-1 LSB and 1.6/-1.9 LSB, respectively.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61376033,61006028)the National High-Tech Program of China(Nos.2012AA012302,2013AA014103)the Opening Project of Science and Technology on Reliability Physics and Application Technology of Electronic Component Laboratory
文摘As the front-end preamplifiers in optical receivers, transimpedance amplifiers （TIAs） are commonly required to have a high gain and low input noise to amplify the weak and susceptible input signal. At the same time, the TIAs should possess a wide dynamic range （DR） to prevent the circuit from becoming saturated by high input currents. Based on the above, this paper presents a CMOS transimpedance amplifier with high gain and a wide DR for 2.5 Gbit/s communications. The TIA proposed consists of a three-stage cascade pull push inverter, an automatic gain control circuit, and a shunt transistor controlled by the resistive divider. The inductive-series peaking technique is used to further extend the bandwidth. The TIA proposed displays a maximum transimpedance gain of 88.3 dBΩ with the -3 dB bandwidth of 1.8 GHz, exhibits an input current dynamic range from 100 nA to 10 mA. The output voltage noise is less than 48.23 nV/√Hz within the -3 dB bandwidth. The circuit is fabricated using an SMIC 0.18 μm 1P6M RFCMOS process and dissipates a dc power of 9.4 mW with 1.8 V supply voltage.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61234002,61322405,61306044,61376033)the Opening Project of Science and Technology on Reliability Physics and Application Technology of Electronic Component Laboratory(No.ZHD201302)
文摘A 10-bit 50 MS/s pipelined SAR ADC is presented which pipelines a 5-bit SAR-based MDAC with a 6-bit SAR ADC.The 1-bit redundancy relaxes the requirement for the sub-ADC decision in accuracy.The SAR-based and ＂half-gain＂ MDAC reduce the power consumption and core area.The dynamic comparator and SAR control logic are applied to reduce power consumption.Implemented in 180 nm CMOS,the fabricated ADC achieves 56.04 dB SNDR and 5mW power consumption from 1.8 V power supply at 50 MS/s.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61234002, 61322405, 61306044, 61376033)the National High-Tech Program of China (No. 2013AA014103)the Opening Project of Science and Technology on Reliability Physics and Application Technology of Electronic Component Laboratory (No. ZHD201302)
文摘A 14-bit,40-MHz analog front end（AFE） for CCD scanners is analyzed and designed.The proposed system incorporates a digitally controlled wideband variable gain amplifier（VGA） with nearly 42 dB gain range,a correlated double sampler（CDS） with programmable gain functionality,a 14-bit analog-to-digital converter and a programmable timing core.To achieve the maximum dynamic range,the VGA proposed here can linearly amplify the input signal in a gain range from-1.08 to 41.06 dB in 6.02 dB step with a constant bandwidth.A novel CDS takes image information out of noise,and further amplifies the signal accurately in a gain range from 0 to 18 dB in0.035 dB step.A 14-bit ADC is adopted to quantify the analog signal with optimization in power and linearity.An internal timing core can provide flexible timing for CCD arrays,CDS and ADC.The proposed AFE was fabricated in SMIC 0.18 μm CMOS process.The whole circuit occupied an active area of 2.8×4.8 mm^2 and consumed360 mW.When the frequency of input signal is 6.069 MHz,and the sampling frequency is 40 MHz,the signal to noise and distortion（SNDR） is 70.3 dB,the effective number of bits is 11.39 bit.
