A reconfigurable pipelined data converter

Author

Mortezapour, Siamak ; Lee, Edward K F

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

6-9 May 2001

Firstpage

314

Abstract

A reconfigurable data converter (RDC) for integrating with a FPGA is proposed. The RDC consists of a number of programmable data converter cells (PDCCs), which can be programmed to perform basic analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog functions that are required in pipelined converters. A programmable switching network is then used to group and connect a number of PDCCs to obtain different numbers of ADCs and DACs with different resolutions. When the RDC is integrated with a FPGA, it will provide a low cost solution for realizing low to medium volume mixed signal systems. To demonstrate this concept, a prototype RDC was designed in a 2 μm CMOS process and tested by configuring the RDC into different data converters

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; data conversion; field programmable gate arrays; pipeline processing; programmable circuits; 2 micron; CMOS process; FPGA; analog-to-digital converter; digital-to-analog converter; mixed signal system; pipelined converter; programmable data converter cell; programmable switching network; reconfigurable data converter; Analog-digital conversion; Costs; Digital systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Prototypes; Signal design; Signal resolution; Switching converters; System testing; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6685-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2001.922235

Filename

922235