研究目的
To present a 0.55 V, 7 bit, 160 MS/s pipeline ADC using dynamic amplifiers, focusing on increasing the ADC's speed, enhancing robustness against supply voltage scaling, and realizing clock-scalable power consumption.
研究成果
The combination of interpolated pipeline architecture and dynamic residue amplifiers demonstrates the feasibility of ultra-low voltage high-speed analog circuit design. A 7 bit prototype ADC achieves a conversion rate of 160 MS/s with a supply voltage of 0.55 V, showing the potential for high-speed operation even with a scaled supply voltage.
研究不足
The dynamic amplifiers in this design are unable to maintain a sufficiently high gain at high temperature, mainly due to the decrease of transconductance, which leads to a higher common-mode voltage and compromised gain. A potential solution to compensate for this is to maintain a constant common-mode voltage in the background, but this design does not incorporate such a calibration technique.