• DocumentCode
    2628796
  • Title

    A 15b-Linear, 20MS/s, 1.5b/Stage Pipelined ADC Digitally Calibrated with Signal-Dependent Dithering

  • Author

    Shu, Yun-Shiang ; Song, Bang-Sup

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., San Diego, CA
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Firstpage
    218
  • Lastpage
    219
  • Abstract
    A signal-dependent dithering concept is developed to measure the multiplying DAC (MDAC) gain error of a 1.5b/stage pipelined ADC in background. A 15b, 20MS/s prototype ADC exhibits SFDR and THD of 98 and -92dB with 14.5MHz input. The chip fabricated in 0.18mum CMOS occupies 2.3 times 1.7mm2, and consumes 285mW at 1.8V
  • Keywords
    analogue-digital conversion; calibration; digital-analogue conversion; 0.18 micron; 1.8 V; 14.5 MHz; 285 mW; DAC calibration; background calibration; digitally calibration; gain error; multiplying DAC; pipelined ADC; signal dependent dithering; Calibration; Capacitors; Computer errors; Electric variables measurement; Gain measurement; Prototypes; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor device measurement; Threshold voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Circuits, 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. 2006 Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0006-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLSIC.2006.1705388
  • Filename
    1705388