Incremental delta-sigma ADCs: A tutorial review

Z Tan, CH Chen, Y Chae… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many sensor applications, a high-resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is a key
block. The use of an incremental delta-sigma ADC (IADC) is often well suited for such …

Trending IC design directions in 2022

CH Chan, L Cheng, W Deng, P Feng… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
For the non-stop demands for a better and smarter society, the number of electronic devices
keeps increasing exponentially; and the computation power, communication data rate, smart …

Jitter-power trade-offs in PLLs

B Razavi - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As new applications impose jitter values in the range of a few tens of femtoseconds, the
design of phase-locked loops faces daunting challenges. This paper derives basic relations …

A 4-GS/s 10-ENOB 75-mW ringamp ADC in 16-nm CMOS with background monitoring of distortion

B Hershberg, D Dermit, B van Liempd… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A interleaved pipelined ADC for direct-RF sampling applications is presented. It leverages
the performance advantages of ring amplifiers to unlock greater architectural freedom. The …

A 6.4-GS/s 1-GHz BW continuous-time pipelined ADC with time-interleaved sub-ADC-DAC achieving 61.7-dB SNDR in 16-nm FinFET

R Mittal, H Shibata, S Patil… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a continuous-time (CT) pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) featuring a
time-interleaved sub-ADC-digital-to-analog converter (DAC) path in its first stage. The …

A 1-MS/s to 1-GS/s ringamp-based pipelined ADC with fully dynamic reference regulation and stochastic scope-on-chip background monitoring in 16 nm

B Hershberg, N Markulić, J Lagos… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fully dynamic ringamp-based pipelined ADC with integrated reference
buffer that operates from 1-MS/s to 1-GS/s and maintains a Walden Figure-of-Merit (FoM) of …

A 4-GS/s 11.3-mW 7-bit time-based ADC with folding voltage-to-time converter and pipelined TDC in 65-nm CMOS

IM Yi, N Miura, H Nosaka - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A folding voltage-to-time converter (VTC) is proposed for low-power time-based (TB) flash
ADCs performing voltage-to-time-to-digital conversion. Conventional VTCs in TB flash ADCs …

A 2-GS/s time-interleaved ADC with embedded background calibrations and a novel reference buffer for reduced inter-channel crosstalk

L Ricci, G Bè, M Rocco, L Scaletti… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-interleaved (TI) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are an established architecture,
but fundamental problems still exist that prevent replicating the performance of each sub …

A 12-bit 1 GS/s RF sampling pipeline-SAR ADC with harmonic injecting cross-coupled pair achieving 7.5 fj/conv-step

L Fang, X Wen, T Fu, P Gui - … on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an RF sampling 1 GS/s 12-bit single-channel successive approximation register
(SAR) assisted pipeline analog to digital converter (ADC). A novel Harmonic-injecting Cross …

Lower bounds on power consumption of clock generators for ADCs

B Razavi - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper formulates the jitter-power trade-offs in the design of phase-locked loops that
provide the sampling clock for ADCs. We obtain lower bounds for the oscillator power …