Series in Microelectronics
edited by
Wolfgang Fichtner
Qiuting Huang
Heinz Jäckel
Gerhard Tröster
Bernd Witzigmann
Jürg Treichler,
Preserving High Resolution in
Deep-Submicron
CMOS Pipelined A/D Converters
2010. 262 pages. ISBN 3-86628-316-4 and 978-3-86628-316-9
Abstract::
While the continuing development of new process technologies with shrinking
minimum feature sizes allows digital designs to have higher integration
densities and more functionality per area, analog circuits increasingly suffer
from the lowering of the supply voltage. The design of analog-to-digital
converters (ADCs) is particularly affected by this problem. This thesis focuses
on achieving high resolutions in pipelined ADCs running at low supply voltages.
After an introduction comprising an overview of converter architectures and a
literature summary, noise and error sources in pipelined converters are
analyzed. Architectural considerations with a special focus on removing the
dedicated sample-and-hold stage present in most published designs follow, and
different calibration schemes for certain subcircuits are described as well.
Two chapters deal with the implementation and measurements of realized converters,
together with an analysis of encountered problems.
About the Author
Jürg Treichler received
the Dipl. Ing. ETH degree in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2003. He
joined the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) of ETH in the same year as a research and teaching
assistant, where he worked on the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated
circuits with a focus on pipelined A/D converters.
Keywords: Keywords: data converters, pipelined, A/D
converters, ADC, CMOS, analog circuits, IC design, switched-capacitor,
calibration.
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