Analog-to-digital converters are inevitable in the modern communication systems and there is always a need for the design of low-power converters. There are different A/D architectures to achieve medium resolution at medium speeds and among all those Cyclic/Algorithmic structure stands out due to its low hardware complexity and less die area costs. This thesis aims at discussing the ongoing trend in Cyclic/Algorithmic ADCs and their functionality. Some design techniques are studied on how to implement low power high resolution A/D converters. Also, non-ideal effects of SC implementation for Cyclic A/D converters are explored. Two kinds of Cyclic A/D architectures are compared. One is the conventional Cyclic ADC with RSD technique and the other is Cyclic ADC with Correlated Level Shift (CLS) technique. This ADC is a part of IMST Design + Systems International GmbH project work and was designed and simulated at IMST GmbH. This thesis presents the design of a 12-bit, 1 Msps, Cyclic/Algorithmic Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) using the “Redundant Signed Digit (RSD)” algorithm or 1.5-bit/stage architecture with switched-capacitor (SC) implementation. The design was carried out in 130nm CMOS process with a 1.5 V power supply. This ADC dissipates a power of 1.6 mW when run at full speed and works for full-scale input dynamic range. The op-amp used in the Cyclic ADC is a two-stage folded cascode structure with Class A output stage. This op-amp in typical corner dissipates 631 uW power at 1.5 V power supply and achieves a gain of 77 dB with a phase margin of 64° and a GBW of 54 MHz at 2 pF load.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-80132 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Puppala, Ajith kumar |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Elektroniksystem, Linköpings universitet, Tekniska högskolan |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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