12-Bits 50 MHz Pipelined Low-Voltage ADC Design

In this paper, a 12-bit 50MHz Pipelined Low-Voltage ADC is presented, which consists of 8-stage-pipelined low resolution ADCs and a 4-bit flash ADC. Several critical technologies are used to guarantee the resolution and high sampling and converting rate such as 1.5bits per stage conversion, digital correction logic, gain-boosted telescopic OTA and so on. Finally the whole system is taped out in SMIC with its 0.13 um process successful, the test result testified all the specifications are well satisfied.