Index termsanalogtodigital converter adc, multistage adc, pipelined. The pipelined adc is a practical and efficient structure for moderate speed1200mss, moderate resolution 1016 bits adcs. This paper presents a 10bit, 125 mss cmos pipelined analogtodigital converter adc. Pdf the paper describes design requirements of a basic stage called mdac multiplying digitaltoanalog converter of a pipelined adc. Large dc gain and large capacitors are shown to be necessary to achieve high linearity in a pipelined adc. A cmos low power, quad channel, 12 bit, 40mss pipelined. Accuracy enhancement techniques in lowvoltage high. Second, this signal is quantized by the sub adc, which produces a digital output n. A low power, middleresolution 710 bit, middle speed 20mhz200mhz pipelined adc. Asynchronous 8bit pipelined adc for selftriggered sensor.
Mar 10, 2014 i have downloaded one simulink model file of pipelined adc from file exchange. Background calibration algorithm for pipelined adc with. Two stage pipelined adc transfer function d out v in v. A 10 bit opampsharing pipeline analogtodigital converter adc using a novel mirror telescopic operational amplifiers opamp with dual nmos differential inputs is presented. The block diagram of general pipelined adc is shown in fig. The ad41240 is a 12bit, fourchannel pipelined analog to digital converter fabricated in a radtolerant cmos technology and capable of running at 40 mhz with a power consumption per. Department of electrical and computer engineering slides by bibhudatta sahoo1 pipelined adc design a tutorial based on slides from dr. Output of stagei called residue r i is digitized to p i j1 n jbits. Fetch one instruction while another one reads or writes data. The design takes care of power optimization at every level of design. Two different singlebitperstage adc adaptationcalibration methods are presented as examples. A 15b 1msamples digitally selfcalibrated pipeline adc, ieee j. The pipelined adc had its origins in the subranging architecture which was first used in the 1950s as a means to reduce the component count and power in tunnel diode and vacuum tube flash adcs see references 1, 2. For example, reduced signal swing and device gain make it increasingly difficult to realize highspeed, high.
The resolution of pipelined adc is high and comparable to that of sigmadelta. This paper discusses the options of number of bitsstage conversion techniques in pipelined. In this paper, a 10bit 50mss nyquistrate cmos pipelined analogtodigital converter adc with digital correction is presented for the wlan application. Analog integrated circuits and signal processing, oct 2016. Spru812 tms320x2833x analogtodigital converter adc reference guide describes how to configure and use the onchip adc module, which is a 12bit pipelined adc. In the design of pipelined adcs, a sampleandhold sha block can optionally be added at the front of the adc. Optimizing the stage resolution of a 10bit, 50 mssec. This paper discusses the options of number of bitsstage conversion techniques in pipelined adcs and. This paper presents a novel architecture of asynchronous pipelined analog to digital converter with emphasis on elimination of external clock for integrated selftriggered sensor based applications. Pipelined adc digital calibration by using polynomial inverse function. A digitally calibrated 12 bits 25 mss pipelined adc with. Testing of nstage 1 bit per stage pipelined adc using test.
Pipelined structure, as one of the typical architectures has been widely implemented in the adc design. It consists of several cascaded stages each resolve n bit, timing circuits and digital correction block. Pdf pipelined adc design and enhancement technqiues. A 10bit, 200mss cmos pipeline adc using new shared opamp. In addition, it explores the limitations of pipelined sar adcs, which recently have demonstrated high power efficiency at conversion rates of several tens of mss and sndr 65 db. Accuracy needed for fine adc relaxed by introducing interstage gain example. Allphotonic pipelined adc concept architecture wideband analog to digital conversion is a critical problem encountered in broadband communication and radar systems. Pipelined adc design and key tradeoffs are discussed.
Spru949 tms320x2833x external interface xintf users guide describes the xintf, which is a nonmultiplexed asynchronous bus, as it is used on the 2833x devices. Analog to digital converters are crucial components in many communication, signal processing systems and image capturing systems. One of the most famous architectures of padc is the 1 bit per stage padc. It discusses key performance characteristics of pipeline adcs such as architecture. Lecture 23 pipelined adcs continued effect gain stage, subdac nonidealities on overall adc performance. Similar to a conventional pipelined adc, each stage resolves a fixed number of bits. Noise is one of the main constraints while designing a 12bit adc. Background calibration techniques for multistage pipelined adcs with digital redundancy 533 fig. Adc snr is shown to be related to capacitor area, where to achieve a high snr large capacitors are required. The adc utilizes a novel architecture in which subranging is incorporated in a pipelined sar along with sub binary dacs.
Analog to digital converter, operational trans conductance amplifier, design of all the blocks used in pipeline introduction this project report presents the design of 12bit pipeline adc operating at sampling rate of 100mhz. An overview of several state of the art design techniques in achieving good linearity and low power in pipelined adcs are outlined. In a conventional sar design, the comparator thermal noise has to be less than the quantization noise of the adc. Pdf circuits and algorithms for pipelined adcs in scaled. A digitally calibrated 12 bits 25 mss pipelined adc with a 3. Each stage is made of one fully differential sampleandhold amplifier sha, a 1bit sub adc basically one comparator and a 1. A pipelined adc with digital correction for ieee 802. At present, only the pipelined adc architecture is capable of meeting the stringent bandwidth, linearity, and resolution requirements for this application. Simulink behavioral modeling of a 10 bit pipelined adc pdf. Pdf basic block of pipelined adc design requirements.
The third technique facilitates large adc power reduction by replacing all opamps in a 10bit 50 mss pipelined adc with source followers, and uses a novel fullydifferential passive gain technique to obtain an mdac gain near 2x. A 12bit 50m sampless digitally selfcalibrated pipelined adc. Pipelined datapath the goal of pipelining is to allow multiple instructions execute at the same time we may need to perform several operations in a cycle increment the pc and add registers at the same time. Lastly, to evaluate the proposed pipelinedsar architecture, a prototype adc was implemented in a 65 nm cmos process. The sources of errors in a 1bitstage pipelined adc. Second, this signal is quantized by the sub adc, which produces a digital output n bit.
The model resolution is very flexible, and system level techniques are easily added. However, in current products, the power efficiency of this architecture is limited by the use of operational amplifiers. A block diagram of the subranging architecture is shown in figure 1, where a 6bit, twostage adc. Dec 22, 2017 this document will present the design of a residue amplifier for a two stages, enob, pipelined adc in stm 28nm fdsoi technology. Thus, like the singlecycle datapath, a pipelined processor needs. A modified pipelined sar architecture is proposed, which uses two switchedcapacitor digitaltoanalog converters dacs at the adc frontend. Current mode adc is a counterpart of voltage mode pipelined adc, but the current mode pipelined adcs are not much explored so there is a requirement to examine potential performance parameters one can achieve using these type of converters. Pipelined adc design by jipeng li a dissertation submitted to oregon state university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy presented. Corresponding registers appear after the summaries, which include a detailed description of each bit. The pipelined adc is an architecture for data conversion which uses the concept of pipelining to reduce the hardware in the flash type adc and maintaining the speed comparable to that of flash type. Pdf design of a residue amplifier for pipelined adcs.
The pipelined subranging adc architecture dominates todays applications where sampling rates of greater than 5 msps to 10. A 12bit 75mss pipelined adc using openloop residue. Background calibration techniques for multistage pipelined. Reduction of power and area is achieved by completely merging the frontend sampleandhold ampli. Chapter 2 describes the general pipelined architecture and specifies in the 1bitstage pipelined adc. Keywords analogtodigital converter pipeline adc highswing ampli. The low resolution adc digitizing r i is called the backend of stagei. A low power, middleresolution 710 bit, middle speed 20mhz200mhz pipelined adc is an important block in modern applications of telecommunication, consumer electronics, and medical electronics.
Simulation result of pipelined adc incorporating designed opamp 61 5. Cmos technology scaling is creating significant issues for analog circuit design. However, in current products, the power efficiency of this architecture is limited by the use of operational amplifiers as interstage gain elements. The power consumption of this adc is just 40 mw at a supply voltage. A digitally calibrated 12 bits 25 mss pipelined adc with a 3 input multiplexer for calice integrated readout f. This article explains the architecture and operation of pipelined adcs.
The pipelined adc architecture employing the proposed reference scaling technique is shown in fig. Design of an operational amplifier for high performance. Architecture complexity is proportional to the resolution n nj throughput is significantly improved relative. The adc used operational amplifier sharing architecture to reduce power consumption and achieved maximum dnl of 0. A 12bit 50m sampless digitally selfcalibrated pipelined adc by xiaohong du a thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of. A pipelined sar adc with gainstage based on capacitive.
The amplifier is based on the folded cascode configuration and. An nbit flash adc consists of an array of 2n1 comparators and a set of 2n 1 reference values. This thesis describes the different aspects of the design and implementation of a 12bit 50m sampless pipelined nonbinary radix 1. The proposed technique compensates for linear errors such as capacitor mismatches as well as. Ee247 lecture 23 university of california, berkeley. Summary last lecture university of california, berkeley. The perfor mances of a pipelined adc, such as resolution, sampling rate, and power consumption, are mainly. Pipelined adc free download as powerpoint presentation. Many designers preferred a stage resolution of 3 bits just to reduce the design com plexity.
The current mode adc is similar to the voltage mode, but in this case input will be. The converter architecture is made up of 14 stages with an interstage gain of 1. Mdac design considerations capacitor matchinglinearity. Generic pipelined adc each stage resolves a small number of bits i.
Resolutions range from eight bits at the faster sample rates up to 16 bits at the lower rates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the fastest sar adc using a single comparator. The pipelined adc is constructed using switched capacitor sc circuits, which exploit the charge storing abilities of complementary metal oxide semiconductor cmos to achieve precise signal processing and which is preferred in mixed signal and analogtodigital converter ad interfaces. This signal passes into the subdac which converts it back to the analog signal. How to tradeoff and get rid of these bad factors are the hot points in the lowpower pipelined adc. Although many pipelined adc architectures are dis cussed in literature, the number of bitsstage conversion was always a designers choice.
The goal of this project was to design a high speed. The main innovative feature of the proposed pipelined adc. Pipelined adc architecture figure 1 shows a block diagram of a 12bit pipelined adc. Pipelined photonic analogtodigital converter to cite this article. Design and implementation a 8 bits pipeline analog to digital. A pipelined sar adc with gainstage based on capacitive charge pump. Its differential and integral nonlinearities are 0. Pipelined adc with four 3bit stages each stage resolves two bits. First, the input signal vin is captured by the sample and hold amplifier. Sources of errors robust performance of pipelined adcs. Pipeline adc is a mixedsignal system, which consists of sample and hold amplifier sha, subadc, multiplying digitaltoanalog converter mdac and. Below is a simulink model for a pipelined adc including nonidealities such as offsets, matching, and noise. However, they also bring some drawbacks affecting the adc performance, such as nonlinearity and distortion.
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