In this thesis work, a design of 14-bit, 20MS/s segmented digital-to-analog converter
(DAC) is presented. The segmented DAC uses switched-capacitor configuration to
implement 8 (LSB) + 6 (MSB) segmented architecture to achieve high performance for
minimum area. The implemented LSB DAC is based on quasi-passive pipelined DAC
that has been proven to provide low power and high speed operation. Typically, capacitor
matching is the best among all integrated circuit components but the mismatch among
nominally equal value capacitors will introduce nonlinear distortion. By using dynamic
element matching (DEM) technique in the MSB DAC, the nonlinearity caused by
capacitor mismatch is greatly reduced. The output buffer employed direct charge transfer
(DCT) technique that can minimize kT/C noise without increasing the power dissipation.
This segmented DAC is designed and simulated in 0.18 μm CMOS technology, and the
simulated core DAC block only consumes 403 μW. / Graduation date: 2012
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/28313 |
| Date | 09 March 2012 |
| Creators | Kuo, Ming-Hung |
| Contributors | Temes, Gabor C. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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