• DocumentCode
    630023
  • Title

    An 8.5mW 5GS/s 6b flash ADC with dynamic offset calibration in 32nm CMOS SOI

  • Author

    Chen, Vanessa H.-C ; Pileggi, Larry

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    12-14 June 2013
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a 5GS/s 6bit flash ADC fabricated in a 32nm CMOS SOI. The randomness of process mismatch is exploited to compensate for dynamic offset errors of comparators that occur during high speed operation. Utilizing the proposed calibration, comparators are designed with near-minimum size transistors and built-in reference levels. The ADC achieves an SNDR of 30.9dB at Nyquist and consumes 8.5mW with an FoM of 59.4fJ/conv-step.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; calibration; comparators (circuits); silicon-on-insulator; CMOS SOI; SNDR; a process mismatch; analogue-digital conversion; built-in reference levels; comparators; dynamic offset calibration; dynamic offset errors; flash ADC; high speed operation; near-minimum size transistors; power 8.5 mW; size 32 nm; CMOS integrated circuits; Calibration; Clocks; Heuristic algorithms; Semiconductor device measurement; Transistors; Very large scale integration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Circuits (VLSIC), 2013 Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5531-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6578688