Title :
U-PAS: A user-friendly ADC simulator for courses on analog design
Author :
Sahoo, Bibhu Datta ; Razavi, Behzad
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A simulator with a graphical user interface has been developed for the analysis and design of pipelined analog-to-digital converters. The user can enter parameters such as resolution per stage, number of pipelined stages, input and clock frequencies, input amplitude, op amp nonlinearity, capacitor mismatch, and comparator offset. The simulator then computes various static and dynamic properties of the system such as residue plots, differential and integral nonlinearity profiles, output spectrum, and input-referred noise. Available as an executable code, the simulator can run on various platforms.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; computer aided instruction; electronic engineering education; graphical user interfaces; operational amplifiers; analog design; capacitor mismatch; comparator circuit; graphical user interface; input-referred noise; integral nonlinearity profile; op-amp nonlinearity; pipelined analog-to-digital converter design; user-friendly ADC simulator course; Analog-digital conversion; Analytical models; Capacitors; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Graphical user interfaces; Mathematical model; Operational amplifiers; Pipelines; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronic Systems Education, 2009. MSE '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4407-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4406-9
DOI :
10.1109/MSE.2009.5270826
