A 8-bit 125-MSample/s pipelined ADC

This paper describes a 1.8-V, 8-bit, 125 Msample/s analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a power-efficient architecture designed in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology. Through sharing an amplifier between two successive pipeline stages, the converter is realized with just three amplifiers and a separate sample-and-hold block. It employs a wide-bandwidth low-power wide-swing gain-boosting folded-cascode amplifiers, an improved bootstrap switch technique and appropriate scaling down skill. The simulation result shows the ADC achieves 57.7-dB spurious free dynamic range (SFDR), 48-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), 7.6 effective number of bits (ENOB) for 62-MHz input and consumes 36-mw from 1.8-V supply, which also includes five buffer amplifiers.