• DocumentCode
    141852
  • Title

    Understanding the regenerative comparator circuit

  • Author

    Abidi, Abdessalem ; Hao Xu

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    15-17 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    The regenerative comparator circuit which lies at the heart of A/D conversion, slicer circuits, and memory sensing, is unstable, time-varying, nonlinear, and with multiple equilibria. That does not mean, as this paper shows, that it cannot be understood with simple equivalent circuits that reveal its dynamics completely, and enable it to be designed to specifications on static and dynamic offset and noise. The analysis is applied to the StrongArm latch.
  • Keywords
    analogue-digital conversion; comparators (circuits); AD conversion; equivalent circuits; memory sensing; regenerative comparator circuit; slicer circuits; Capacitors; Equivalent circuits; Field effect transistors; Inverters; Latches; Trajectory; Vectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2014 IEEE Proceedings of the
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICC.2014.6946003
  • Filename
    6946003
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=141852