학술논문

A 280 $\mu$ W Dynamic Zoom ADC With 120 dB DR and 118 dB SNDR in 1 kHz BW
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of. 53(12):3497-3507 Dec, 2018
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Computing and Processing
Signal resolution
Bandwidth
Linearity
Clocks
Energy resolution
Registers
Distance measurement
A/D conversion
asynchronous successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter
battery-powered applications
delta–sigma ADC
dynamic zoom ADC
inverter-based operational transconductance amplifier (OTA)
low-power circuits
Language
ISSN
0018-9200
1558-173X
Abstract
This paper presents a dynamic zoom analog-to-digital converter for use in low-bandwidth ( $\Delta \Sigma$ ADC. Compared to previous zoom ADCs, faster reference updates relax the loop filter requirements, thus allowing the adoption of energy-efficient amplifiers. Fabricated in a 0.16- $\mu \text{m}$ CMOS process, the prototype occupies 0.26 mm 2 and achieves 119.1-dB peak signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), 118.1-dB peak signal-to-noise-and-distortion-ratio (SNDR), and 120.3-dB dynamic range (DR) in a 1-kHz bandwidth while consuming 280 $\mu \text{W}$ . This results in a Schreier figure of merit (FoM) of 185.8 dB.