Systematic Design of a Flash ADC for UWB Applications

This paper presents the systematic design of a 5-bit, 1.2 GSPS interpolative flash ADC for multiband OFDM UWB applications. The proposed ADC architecture employs the proven capacitive interpolation, which greatly reduce the power consumption, by eliminating the need of a power hungry resistive ladder. The flash ADC has been implemented in a 0.18 mum CMOS process. Circuit level simulations show that the proposed architecture can achieve an SNDR of 25.3 dB, and an SFDR of 29.3 dB, with an input signal frequency of 330 MHz, at a sampling rate of 1.2 GSPS. The ADC core dissipates 130 mW from a 1.8 V supply