Title : 
A 89fJ-FOM 6-bit 3.4GS/s flash ADC with 4x time-domain interpolation
         
        
            Author : 
Jianwei Liu;Chi-Hang Chan;Sai-Weng Sin;U Seng-Pan;Rui Paulo Martins
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI Dept. of ECE, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao, China
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents a 6-bit 3.4 GS/s flash ADC in 65 nm CMOS. The proposed 4× time-domain interpolation technique allows the reduction of the number of comparators from the conventional 63 to 16 in a 6-bit flash ADC. Without extra clocking and calibration in the interpolated stage, the proposed scheme effectively achieves a 4x interpolation factor with simple SR-latches. Offset calibration is only applied to the comparators and implemented on-chip. Measurement results show that the prototype can achieve 3.4 GS/s with a total power consumption of 12.6 mW at 1 V supply. Besides, it exhibits a 34.2 dB SNDR at Nyquist, which yields a Walden FoM of 89 fJ/conversion-step.
         
        
            Keywords : 
"Interpolation","Latches","Calibration","Frequency measurement","Time-domain analysis","CMOS integrated circuits","Power demand"
         
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2015 IEEE Asian
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ASSCC.2015.7387463