Simulation results for a 12bit pipelined adc show that the proposed technique can improve the signaltonoiseanddistortion ratio sndr and the spuriousfree dynamic range sfdr from 44 and 48 db to 72 and 86 db, respectively. Digitally assisted pipeline adcs theory and implementation. Which adc architecture is right for your application. Digital calibration of dac unit elements mismatch in. An unitygain 1bit fliparound digitaltoanalog converter fadac, without any capacitor matching issue, is proposed as the frontend input stage in a pipelined analogtodigital converter adc, allowing an input signal voltage swing up to be doubled. Pipelined structure, as one of the typical architectures has been widely implemented in the adc design. Pipeline adc architectures drastically reduce the number of. Secondly, the capacitor is connected to the input and output nodes of the amplifier only during the hold phase. Yoshioka et al 10bit, 125 mss, 40 mw pipelined adc in 0. The pipelined adc is a practical and efficient structure for moderate speed1200mss, moderate resolution 1016 bits adcs. Through different incarnations and modifications, such as incorporating sar adcs in a pipelined adc structure, using different methods of amplification and employing digital assistance, it has managed to survive and. Background calibration techniques for multistage pipelined adcs with digital redundancy 533 fig. Pdf this paper describes an 8bit pipelined analogtodigital converter adc.
Pdf an 8bit 200msamples pipelined adc with mixedmode. Adc can now be obtained by using a simple radix calculation based on the modified radix value 16 4. One of the most famous architectures of padc is the 1 bit per stage padc. A basic understanding of these, the three most popular adc architecturesand their relationship to the market. Using 1, we can relate to via for for 2 we have omitted quantization noise terms to highlight capacitor mismatch effects. The third technique facilitates large adc power reduction by replacing all opamps in a 10bit 50 mss pipelined adc with source followers, and uses a novel fullydifferential passive gain technique to obtain an mdac gain near 2x. Testing of nstage 1 bit per stage pipelined adc using. In spite of its limitations, the pipelined adc architecture still runs supreme as the dominant architecture for high speed and high resolution adcs. Large dc gain and large capacitors are shown to be necessary to achieve high linearity in a pipelined adc. In this paper, a modeling of highresolution hybrid analogtodigital converter adc is proposed to meet those requirements, and a 16bit twostep pipelined successive approximation register sar analogtodigital converter. The model resolution is very flexible, and system level techniques are easily added. Electronics free fulltext modeling of highresolution. Background digital calibration techniques for pipelined adcs unku moon and bangsup song abstract a skip and.
This paper was approved by guest editor makoto ikeda. However, they also bring some drawbacks affecting the adc performance, such as nonlinearity and distortion. The concurrent operation of all pipelined stages makes this. Walt kester, editor, data conversion handbook, published by. Kwok et al, power optimization for pipeline analogtodigital converters, ieee transactions on circuits and systemsii. Pipelined adc architectures general pipelined system each stage performs an operation on the signal, provides the output for the following sampler, and, once the sampler has acquired the data, begins the same operation on the next signal. Pdf power dissipation of analog and mixedsignal circuits has emerged as a critical design constraint. View chapter download pdf chapter download epub chapter. Pipelined adc analog to digital converter digital to. Design of pipeline analog to digital converter vivek tripathi, chandrajit debnath, rakesh malik stmicroelectronics the pipeline analogtodigital converter adc architecture is the most popular topology for video processing, telecommunications, digital imaging etc. Based on this technique, a 12 b pipelined adc is implemented in 65 nm cmos that achieves 67. The described digitally assisted pipelined adc uses a statisticsbased system. This contrasts strongly with the 1980s, when these markets were served by either the ic flash converter which dominated the 8bit video market with sampling rates between 15 msps and 100 msps or the higherresolution.
Page 1 ee247 lecture 22 adc converters pipelined adcs eecs 247 lecture 22. In this paper, a modeling of highresolution hybrid analogtodigital converter adc is proposed to meet those requirements, and a 16bit twostep pipelined successive approximation register sar analog. The first stage of the pipelined adc is responsible for the most significant bit, and the seventh stage gives the least significant bit of the digital output. The features of highresolution and highbandwidth are in an increasing demand considering to the wide range application fields based on high performance data converters. Lecture 23 pipelined adcs continued effect gain stage, subdac nonidealities on overall adc performance. Reference 9 takes use of dummy sampling capacitances. Accuracy needed for fine adc relaxed by introducing interstage gain example.
Below is a simulink model for a pipelined adc including nonidealities such as offsets, matching, and noise. Modeling and implementation of a 6bit, 50mhz pipelined adc in. May 17, 2014 the pipelined adc is constructed using switched capacitor sc circuits, which exploit the charge storing abilities of complementary metal oxide semiconductor cmos to achieve precise signal processing and which is preferred in mixed signal and analogtodigital converter ad interfaces. Modeling and implementation of a 6 bit, 50mhz pipelined adc. This paper was approved by associate editor kunihiko iizuka. A pipelined adc with digital correction for ieee 802. In this paper, a 10bit 50mss nyquistrate cmos pipelined analogtodigital converter adc with digital correction is presented for the wlan application. Two stage pipelined adc transfer function d out v in v. Background calibration techniques for multistage pipelined. A 12b 250 mss pipelined adc with virtual ground reference. Sources of errors robust performance of pipelined adcs. Pdf design and implementation of 7bit pipeline analog to digital.
Corresponding registers appear after the summaries, which include a detailed description of each bit. How to tradeoff and get rid of these bad factors are the hot points in the lowpower pipelined adc design area. This large input swing, coupled with the inherent large feedback factor ideally. Today, the lowpower cmos pipelined converter is the adc of choice, not only for the video market but for many others as well. Analog to digital converter, operational trans conductance amplifier, design of all the blocks used in pipeline introduction this project report presents the design of 12bit pipeline adc operating at sampling rate of 100mhz. Pipeline adc area, power, speed, resolution tradeoff 28 for a given adc resolution, the number of stages and number of bits resolved in each stage determines. Pdf a pipelined sar adc with gainstage based on capacitive. Hugh barnaby, chair bertan bakkaloglu jennifer blain christen arizona state university august 2012. As verification of the proposed design methodology, a 10bit 40mhz pipeline analogtodigital converter prototype is developed in commercial tsmc 90nm cmos technology.
A 12bit 50m sampless digitally selfcalibrated pipelined adc. It consists of several cascaded stages each resolve n bit, timing circuits and digital correction block. Digital calibration of dac unit elements mismatch in pipelined adcs. In this schematic, the analog input, vin, is first sampled and held steady by a sample andhold. Background digital calibration techniques for pipelined. Boser, a 12b, 75mss pipelined adc using openloop residue amplification, isscc dig.
A pipelined sar adc with gainstage based on capacitive charge pump article pdf available in analog integrated circuits and signal processing october 2016. Different stages process different samplers concurrently. A pipelined sar adc with gainstage based on capacitive charge pump article pdf available in analog integrated circuits and signal processing october 2016 with 1,409 reads how we measure reads. Lewis et al, a pipelined 5msamples 9bit analogtodigital converter, ieee journal of solidstate circuits, vol sc22, december 1987, pp. The proposed digital calibration technique is applicable to capacitorratioed multiplying digitaltoanalog. This reduces the design complexity and the power consumption of opamp based circuits. This set of bits is the digital output of the adc, or alternatively, we may think of as a representation of the adcs digital output. Simulink behavioral modeling of a 10 bit pipelined adc. Therefore, the feedback gain from the output node to the input node of the amplifier is 1. Modeling and implementation of a 6 bit, 50mhz pipelined. A 12b, 75mss pipelined adc using openloop residue amplification, isscc dig. Pipelined analog to digital converter and fault diagnosis. Chapter 2 introduces a bist system where both the circuit and its diagnosis tool are implemented on the same chip.
Pdf digital calibration of dac unit elements mismatch in. In the design of pipelined adcs, a sampleandhold sha block can optionally be added at the front of the adc to improve its dynamic performance at high conversion rates. Haze, basic block of pipelined adc design requirements basic block of pipelined adc design requirements vilem kledrowetz, jiri haze dept. A 12bit 50m sampless digitally selfcalibrated pipelined adc by xiaohong du a thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of science major. Digital background calibration for pipelined adcs based on. At this point, each flash adc is nothing more than a simple comparator, also, the data is transferred in a pipeline fashion. In this thesis a 6bit pipelined adc has been designed which operates at a clock frequency of 50mhz and dissipates only 31. Adc snr is shown to be related to capacitor area, where to achieve a high snr large capacitors are required. Through different incarnations and modifications, such as incorporating sar adcs in a pipelined adc structure, using different methods of amplification and employing digital assistance, it has managed to survive and flourish. Pipelined adc design and key tradeoffs are discussed. A low power, middleresolution 710 bit, middle speed 20mhz200mhz pipelined adc is an important block in modern applications of telecommunication, consumer electronics, and medical electronics. A lowpower capacitive charge pump based pipelined adc.
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