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Analysis and optimization of the twostage pipelined sar. Brief history pipelined and sar adc architectures date back to. Pipelined and sar adc architectures date back to the mid1900s. Power optimization in 3 bit pipelined adc structure. The concurrent operation of all pipelined stages makes this architecture suitable to achieve very high conversion rates. The twostage pipelined sar adc successive approximation register analogtodigital convertor is analyzed which consists of a sarbased mdac and a sar adc, with 1 bit redundancy to relax the requirement for the subadc decision in accuracy. Similar to a conventional pipelined adc, each stage resolves a fixed number of bits. Index terms analogtodigital converter, capacitor mismatch, correlation, digital redundancy, finite opamp dc gain, multistage. Pipelined datapath the goal of pipelining is to allow multiple instructions execute at the same time we may need to perform several operations in a cycle increment the pc and add registers at the same time. Fetch one instruction while another one reads or writes data. Background calibration techniques for multistage pipelined. Operating at 300 mss sampling rate, the adc consumes 26. In these applications, the specifications of the adc vary significantly across different.

In this chapter circuit level implementation and design related issued were discussed for key components in a 1. Abstract this paper presents the systematic design approach of a lowpower, mediumresolution, highspeed pipelined analogtodigital converter adc. Then, we merge the gain factor of the reference voltage to the input and output portions. Pdf a 10bit 50mss subsampling pipelined adc based on. Sources of errors robust performance of pipelined adcs. Ee247 lecture 23 university of california, berkeley. Th15 are generated by a resistor ladder comprising of 16 equal resistors. For example if a transmitted binary digital signal is distorted by a white noise source, it is still possible to precisely determine if a 1 or 0 was transmitted so long as the noise source is sufficiently small maximum noise limitations on digital signaling. One of the most famous architectures of padc is the 1 bit per stage padc. Background calibration techniques for multistage pipelined adcs with digital redundancy 533 fig. University of science and technology of china 1993 m. A modified merged capacitor switching mcs scheme is proposed for the successive approximation register sar analoguetodigital converter adc. However it suffers from nonlinearity, and hence needs calibration. Testing of nstage 1 bit per stage pipelined adc using.

A novel design of 9bit pipeline adc manju devi, arunkumar p chavan, dr k. Architecture complexity is proportional to the resolution n nj throughput is significantly improved relative to algorithmic or sar digital redundancy works the same way as algorithmic interstage gain enables stage scaling to save power and area. Pipelined structure, as one of the typical architectures has been widely implemented in the adc design. General pipelined system each stage performs an operation on the signal, provides the output for the following sampler, and, once the sampler has acquired the data, begins the same operation on the next signal.

You can merge pdfs or a mix of pdf documents and other files. Adc can now be obtained by using a simple radix calculation based on the modified radix value 16 4. Pipelined adc analog to digital converter digital to. A tale of two adcs engineering school of engineering. It consists of several cascaded stages each resolve n bit, timing circuits and digital correction block. The concurrent operation of all pipelined stages makes this. A 10bit 50mss subsampling pipelined adc based on smdac and opamp sharing. Adc architectures university of california, berkeley. Adc snr is shown to be related to capacitor area, where to achieve a high snr large capacitors are required. The conventional mcs technique previously applied to a pipelined adc improves signal processing speed and, with use in the sar adc, this scheme achieves lowest switching energy among existing switching schemes. Pdf this paper describes the implementation of a 12bit 230 mss pipelined adc using a conventional 1. Page 5 concurrent stage operation stages operate on the input signal like a shift register.

Abstractthis work describes a 10b multibitperstage pipelined cmos analog todigital converter adc incorporating the mergedcapacitor switching mcs. A digitally calibrated 12 bits 25 mss pipelined adc with. The outputs of the comparator give a 15bit wide thermometer code which controls the dac of the mdac. A 14b 40msamples pipelined adc with dfca paul yu, shereef shehata, ashutosh joharapurkar, pankaj chugh, alex bugeja, xiaohong du, sungung kwak, yiannis papantonopoulos, turker kuyel. Analog to digital converter, operational trans conductance amplifier, design of all the blocks used in pipeline introduction this project report presents the design of 12bit pipeline adc operating at sampling rate of 100mhz. A digitally calibrated 12 bits 25 mss pipelined adc with a 3. Large dc gain and large capacitors are shown to be necessary to achieve high linearity in a pipelined adc. A switched capacitor is used to sample and multiplying at each stage. Below is a simulink model for a pipelined adc including nonidealities such as offsets, matching, and noise. The power consumption of this adc is just 40 mw at a supply voltage of 1. Our adc contains two groups of fourteen capacitors each, which can be connected to any of the fourteen stages via mos switches. The pipelined adc is a practical and efficient structure for moderate speed1200mss, moderate resolution 1016 bits adcs. A low power, middleresolution 710 bit, middle speed 20mhz200mhz pipelined adc is an important block in modern applications of telecommunication, consumer electronics, and medical electronics.

The pipelined adc is an architecture for data conversion which uses the concept of pipelining to reduce the hardware in the flash type adc and maintaining the speed comparable to that of flash type. Abstract in this paper, design of low power, 9bit pipeline adc architecture is introduced. As digital signals have a finite symbol set, they are much easier to accurately recover at a receiver than analog signals. A 12b, 75mss pipelined adc using openloop residue amplification, isscc dig. The adc uses a new residue amplifier for low noise at low power, and incorporates interleaved channel timeconstant calibration. It was shown for a desired settling accuracy, mdac opamps require a minimum gain and unity gain bandwidth. By ankur modi, prof jaikaran singh, prof mukesh tiwari, dr. Mdac design considerations capacitor matchinglinearity. Thus, like the singlecycle datapath, a pipelined processor needs. It is difficult, however, to use applications that require a high conversion speed with this type of adc due to the exponential increases of the capacitance size as the resolution is increased. The thermometer code is converted to 4bit binary code using an onchip lookup table, also called readonly memory rom. This paper describes a 8 bits, 20 msampless pipeline analogtodigital converter implemented in 0. Pdf merged capacitor switching based sar adc with highest. Highperformance pipeline ad converter design in deep.

The second technique develops a new mdac topology which enables a pipelined adc to be designed without a frontend sampleandhold, and thus allows for significant power reduction. Sri satya sai institute of science and technology, sehore, bhopal. Pdf based on principle of pipeline adc, an 81bit eightstage 10bit pipeline analogtodigital converter adc is presented. Then, we merge the gain factor of the reference voltage into the gain factors of the. Pipelined adc with four 3bit stages each stage resolves two bits. Index termsanalogtodigital converter adc, multistage adc, pipelined recycling, radixbased digital calibration. The pipelined adc architecture employing the proposed reference scaling technique is shown in fig. This reduces the design complexity and the power consumption of opamp based circuits. As verification of the proposed design methodology, a 10bit 40mhz pipeline analogtodigital converter prototype is developed in commercial tsmc 90nm cmos technology. A 12b 250 mss pipelined adc with virtual ground reference.

A pipelined adc with digital correction for ieee 802. Resolutions range from eight bits at the faster sample rates up to 16 bits at the lower rates. Among the many analogtodigital converter adc types, the sar adc is widely used because of the advantages of a low power consumption and simplicity. Two stage pipelined adc transfer function d out v in v. Highperformance pipeline ad converter design in deepsubmicron cmos by yun chiu b. Hugh barnaby, chair bertan bakkaloglu jennifer blain christen arizona state university august 2012. Department of electrical and computer engineering slides by bibhudatta sahoo1 pipelined adc design a tutorial based on slides from dr. Adc is the architecture of choice for applications that require both speed and accuracy and where latency is not concern. Pipelining in adcs was evidently first proposed by severin of texas instruments in a patent filed in 1967 2. In the design of pipelined adcs, a sampleandhold sha block can optionally be added at the front of the adc to improve its dynamic performance at high conversion rates. Figure 1 shows the idea, which remark ably resembles todays 1bitstage designs.

Pipelined adc design and key tradeoffs are discussed. How to merge pdfs and combine pdf files adobe acrobat dc. Testing of nstage 1 bit per stage pipelined adc using test. A digitally calibrated 12 bits 25 mss pipelined adc with a 3 input multiplexer for calice integrated readout f. Design and implementation a 8 bits pipeline analog to. Lecture 23 pipelined adcs continued effect gain stage, subdac nonidealities on overall adc performance.

Motivation in a software defined radio, the adc needs a speed of at least. Introduction the goal of this project is to design a 12bit pipeline analog to digital converter adc. Finally, based on these basic principles and optimizations, a 10bit twostage pipelined sar adc was fabricated and measured. Performance enhancement of pipelined adc researchgate. Slides by bibhudatta sahoo22 thermal noise consideration 2 22 it is costly in terms of power, area, and speed to make input thermal noise smaller than quantization noise for adc resolution, bits. A 14b 100mss pipelined adc with a merged sha and first. The conventional mcs technique previously applied to a pipelined adc improves signal processing speed and, with use in the sar adc, this scheme achieves. The overall speed is determined by the speed of the single stage. The basic idea behind the pipeline adc is that each stage will first sample and hold the input then compare this to vref2. Accuracy needed for fine adc relaxed by introducing interstage gain example. Butterfield boise state university december 15, 2011 1.

Butterfield 1 12bit pipelined adc design project justin d. The model resolution is very flexible, and system level techniques are easily added. In this article, we focus on the last two and study their similarities and differences. Analysis and optimization of the twostage pipelined sar adcs. A lowpower 14b 100mss analogtodigital converter adc is described. A pipelined adc architecture offers good tradeoff between conversion rate, resolution and power consumption. Background calibration algorithm for pipelined adc with. Based on this technique, a 12 b pipelined adc is implemented in 65 nm cmos that achieves 67. Cascade several low resolution stages to obtain high overall resolution e. Keywords analogtodigital converter pipeline adc highswing ampli. A pipeline adc architecture has a 3 stage pipeline adc with 3bit flash adc followed by a 3 bit dac at each stage. In this paper, a 10bit 50mss nyquistrate cmos pipelined analogtodigital converter adc with digital correction is presented for the wlan application. If fullscale adc input is 1 v, then for a 11bit adc the quantization noise power is given by. It achieves a signaltonoiseplusdistortion ratio sndr of 55.