• DocumentCode
    2525922
  • Title

    Design of an ultra-low power time interleaved SAR converter

  • Author

    Erario, Fabrizio ; Agnes, Andrea ; Bonizzoni, Edoardo ; Maloberti, Franco

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Univ. of Pavia, Pavia
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    June 22 2008-April 25 2008
  • Firstpage
    245
  • Lastpage
    248
  • Abstract
    An ultra low-power SAR ADC is presented. The circuit is the interleaved version of an already designed SAR converter with improved performance. This design uses 7 interleaved converters and achieves a conversion rate of 700 kS/s. The converter has been simulated by using a 0.18-mum CMOS technology showing a power consumption as low as 40 muW which allows obtaining a state-of-the-art FoM equal to 37 fJ/conv.-step. The architectural study together with converter simulation results are presented.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; low-power electronics; ADC; CMOS technology; power 40 muW; size 0.18 mum; successive approximation register; ultra-low power time interleaved converter; Attenuation; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Circuit topology; Energy consumption; Pipelines; Sampling methods; Sensor systems; Signal resolution; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, 2008. PRIME 2008. Ph.D.
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1983-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1984-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RME.2008.4595771
  • Filename
    4595771