• DocumentCode
    3170305
  • Title

    Performance improvements in multi-gigabit/s oversampling ADCs

  • Author

    Frounchi, Javad ; Harrold, Steve J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    9
  • Lastpage
    12
  • Abstract
    Design of a complete multi-GHz GaAs HEMT sigma-delta ADC is presented. A novel process insensitive technique has been applied to the design of the ΣΔ modulator and new GaAs source-follower DCFL (SDCFL) complex gates were used in the comb decimator. Simulation results of the modulator confirm that the SNR at the modulator output is relatively insensitive to variations in process parameters. Measurements on high-speed adder test circuits indicate that a speed of 2 GHz with 2.2 W power dissipation can be obtained from the decimator
  • Keywords
    sigma-delta modulation; 2 GHz; 2.2 W; HEMT; SNR; comb decimator; high-speed adder; multi-gigabit/s oversampling ADCs; power dissipation; process insensitive technique; process parameters; sigma-delta ADC; source-follower DCFL;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced A/D and D/A Conversion Techniques and Their Applications, 1999. Third International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 466)
  • Conference_Location
    Glasgow
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-85296-718-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp:19990451
  • Filename
    793952