A 10-bit 70 MHz 3.3 V CMOS 0.5 μm D/A converter for video applications

Author

Fraval, A. ; Dell´ova, F.

Author_Institution

Thomson Consumer Electron. Components, Meylan, France

Volume

41

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

875

Lastpage

879

Abstract

A 10-bit D/A converter with differential current outputs is presented. Special care was taken to minimize the output glitch energy and the linearity errors, considering the 1.5 V output range under a 3.3 V voltage supply. A current cell with biased switches, thermometer decoding and a shuffle in the physical layout of the cells enabled to achieve the following performances. The integral and differential linearity errors INL and DNL are within +/-1.5 LSB and +/-0.5 LSB respectively. The maximal glitch energy is 60 pV.S. The device dissipates 46 mW at 70 MHz clock rate and full-scale output swing. The D/A converter has been developed in a CMOS 0.5 μm technology. The active chip area is 0.4 mm²

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; digital signal processing chips; digital-analogue conversion; high definition television; video signal processing; 0.5 micron; 10 bit; 10-bit 70 MHz 3.3 V CMOS 0.5 μm D/A converter; 3.3 V; 70 GHz; biased switches; chip area; differential current outputs; linearity errors; output glitch energy; physical layout; shuffle; thermometer decoding; video applications; CMOS technology; Clocks; Consumer electronics; Decoding; Energy resolution; Linearity; Resistors; Semiconductor device measurement; Switches; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.468071

Filename

468071