Nowadays, Multi-GHz analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are becoming more and more popular in radar systems, software-de ned radio (SDR) and wideband communications, because they can realize much higher operation speed through using many interleaved sub-ADCs to relax ADC sampling rates. Although the time interleaved ADC has some issues such as gain mismatch, o set mismatch and timing skew between each ADC channel, these deterministic errors can be solved by previous works such as digital calibration technique. However, time-interleaved ADCs require a precise sample clock to achieve an acceptable e ective-numberof- bits (ENOB) which can be degraded by jitter in the sample clock. The clock generation circuits presented in this work achieves sub-picosecond jitter performance in 180nm CMOS which is suitable for time-interleaved ADC. Two di erent test chips were fabricated in 180nm CMOS to investigate the low jitter design technique. The low jitter delay line in two chips were designed in two di erent ways, but both of them utilized the low jitter design technique. In rst test chip, the measured RMS jitter is 0.1061ps for each delay stage. The second chip uses the proposed low jitter Delay-Locked Loop can work from 80MHz to 120MHz, which means it can provide the time interleaved ADC with 2.4GHz to 3.6GHz low jitter sample clock, the measured delay stage jitter performance in second test chip is 0.1085ps.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:wpi.edu/oai:digitalcommons.wpi.edu:etd-dissertations-1640 |
| Date | 08 August 2019 |
| Creators | Gong, Jianping |
| Contributors | John A. McNeill, Advisor, John A. McNeill, Committee Member, Ulkuhan Guler, Committee Member, Michael Coln, Committee Member, National Science Foundation, Analog Devices Inc, Allegro MicroSystems LLC |
| Publisher | Digital WPI |
| Source Sets | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations (All Dissertations, All Years) |
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