System architecture and key components of a multi-Giga-Hertz A/D converter with HBT

Author

Kobayashi, H. ; Tobari, T. ; Matsuura, H. ; Miura, A. ; Yamanaka, M. ; Yakihara, T. ; Kobayashi, S. ; Oka, S. ; Fujita, T. ; Murata, D.

Author_Institution

Teratec Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

1996

Firstpage

1160

Abstract

This paper reports the design and performance of a very fast 6-bit ADC system with GaAs HBT technology. The ADC system consists of a track/hold circuit and an ADC. The track/hold circuit employs an open-loop architecture and uses Schottky barrier diodes for a diode switch, and achieves 3 GS/s operation with better than 6-bit linearity. The 6-bit ADC employs folding/interpolation architecture to reduce hardware and power maintaining the high-speed operation, and it achieves DC linearity better than 7-bit

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; analogue-digital conversion; bipolar integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; heterojunction bipolar transistors; sample and hold circuits; very high speed integrated circuits; 40 GHz; 6 bit; DC linearity; Darlington emitter; GaAs; HBT IC technology; Schottky barrier diodes; differential open-loop architecture; diode switch; equivalent time sampling; folding/interpolation architecture; system architecture; track and hold circuit; very fast ADC system; Circuit synthesis; Gallium arsenide; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Integrated circuit measurements; Interpolation; Linearity; Schottky barriers; Schottky diodes; Switches; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1996. IMTC-96. Conference Proceedings. Quality Measurements: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality., IEEE

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3312-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1996.507554

Filename

507554