A 14-bit 200-MHz Current-Steering DAC with Switching Sequence Post-Adjustment Calibration

In this paper a novel calibration method for high-accuracy current-steering DACs is presented. Different from traditional calibration methods which do the calibration by adjusting the current values of the current sources, our method does the calibration by dynamically rearranging the switching sequence of the current sources. Since this resequencing is performed after chip implementation, even the random errors can be cancelled. In this way the total area needed for the current sources can be greatly reduced. The chip has been implemented in a standard 1P6M 0.18mum CMOS technology. The core area of the chip is around 3 mm², among which the area of the current-source block is only 0.28 mm². The measured SFDR is 81.5 dB at 1 MHz signal frequency and 100 MHz sampling frequency.