A 14b 150 MS/s 140 mW 2.0 mm<SUP>2</SUP> 0.13 μm CMOS A/D converter for software-defined radio systems

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This work proposes a 14 b 150 MS/s CMOS A/D converters (ADC) for software-defined radio systems requiring simultaneously high-resolution, low-power, and small chip area at high speed. The proposed calibration-free ADC employs a wide-band low-noise input sample-and-hold amplifier (SHA) along with a four-stage pipelined architecture optimizing scaling-down factors for the sampling capacitance and the input trans-conductance of amplifiers in each stage to minimize thermal noise effect and power consumption. A signal-insensitive 3-D fully symmetric layout achieves a 14 b level resolution by reducing a capacitor mismatch of three MDACs. The prototype ADC in a 0.13 mu m 1P8M CMOS technology demonstrates a measured differential nonlinearity (DNL) and integral nonlinearity within 0.81LSB and 2.83LSB at 14 b, respectively. The ADC shows a maximum signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio of 64 and 61 dB and a maximum spurious-free dynamic range of 71 and 70 dB at 120 and 150 MS/s, respectively. The ADC with an active die area of 2.0 mm(2) consumes 140 mW at 150 MS/s and 1.2 V. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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