• DocumentCode
    2338879
  • Title

    A mixed mode background calibration technique for pipeline ADCs

  • Author

    Sobhi, Jafar ; Kanani, Ziaeddin Kuzeh ; Tahmasebi, Ahamad ; Yousefi, Mousa

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Tabriz, Tabriz
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    25-27 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    2452
  • Lastpage
    2455
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a mixed mode background calibration technique for pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The proposed calibration scheme uses an insignificant, low-speed, low-power, high-resolution sigma-delta ADC to determine error in digital domain. The calibration technique calibrates capacitor mismatch as well as finite opamp dc gain, while the digital redundancy compensates for comparator offset.
  • Keywords
    calibration; low-power electronics; operational amplifiers; pipeline processing; sigma-delta modulation; analog-to-digital converter; digital redundancy; low-power sigma-delta ADC; mixed mode background calibration technique; opamp dc gain; pipeline ADC; Analog-digital conversion; Calibration; Capacitors; Delta-sigma modulation; Error correction; Linearity; Operational amplifiers; Pipelines; Virtual reality; Voltage; Analog-to-digital converter (ADC); calibration; pipeline; reference ADC;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2009. ICIEA 2009. 4th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Xi´an
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2799-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2800-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIEA.2009.5138643
  • Filename
    5138643