Resolution Enhancement Techniques for High-Speed Multi-Stage Pipelined ADC's Based on a Multi-Bit Multiplying DAC

Joon-Seok LEE  Se-Hoon JOO  Seung-Hoon LEE  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E84-C   No.8   pp.1092-1099
Publication Date: 2001/08/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Electronic Circuits
Keyword: 
calibration,  ADC,  CFCS,  high-resolution,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes resolution enhancement techniques for high-speed multi-stage pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADC's) based on a multi-bit/stage multiplying digital-to-analog converter. The proposed techniques increase ADC resolution and simultaneously minimize chip area, power dissipation, and circuit complexity by removing the gain-proration procedure, which is required in conventional digitally calibrated multi-stage ADC's to reduce unavoidable gain errors between stages with more than two stages calibrated. The resolution of the proposed ADC can be extended furthermore by combining a conventional commutated feedback-capacitor switching scheme with the digital-domain self calibration.