A 6b 100MS/s 0.28mm2 5mW 0.18um CMOS F/I ADC with a Novel Folder Reduction Technique

In this paper, CMOS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a 6-bit 100 MSPS at 1.8 V is described. The architecture of the proposed ADC is based on a folding type ADC using resistive interpolation technique for low power consumption. Further, the number of folding blocks (NFB) is decreased by half of them, compared to the conventional ones. With the clock speed of 100 MSPS, the ADC achieves an effective resolution bandwidth (ERBW) of 50 MHz, while consuming only 4.5 mW of power. The measured result of figure-of-merit (FoM) is 0.93 pJ/convstep. The active chip occupies an area of 0.28 mm² in 0.18 mum CMOS technology.