Microelectronics, Volume. 54, Issue 1, 25(2024)

A 10 bit 120 MS/s SAR ADC Based on a Novel Low Power Switching Strategy

LI Jingyang1,2, WAN Hui2, WANG Dinghong2, and LIU Xinghui1
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    A 10 bit 120 MS/s high speed and low power successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) was designed. To address the power consumption of the capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) module, a dual-level high efficiency switch control strategy that maintains common-mode output was proposed, utilizing capacitive splitting technique combined with a C-2C structure. This structure not only reduced the switching power consumption of CDAC but also eliminated the dependence on the intermediate common-mode level during the CDAC switching process, making it suitable for low voltage processes. In terms of improving the speed, ADC used asynchronous logic for acceleration in its control logic. The comparator adopted a fully dynamic high speed structure, which could achieve a working speed of 3 GHz while ensuring accuracy. For CDAC, redundant bits were inserted to reduce the charging time requirements of high order capacitors. The SAR ADC was implemented in a 40 nm CMOS process and operated at a low voltage of 1.1V. Performance simulations were conducted under various process corner conditions. The results show that at a sampling rate of 120 MHz, the effective number of bits (ENOB) is 9.86 bit, the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is 72 dB, the power consumption is 2.1 mW, and the figure of merit (FOM) is 18.9 fJ/(conv·step).

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    LI Jingyang, WAN Hui, WANG Dinghong, LIU Xinghui. A 10 bit 120 MS/s SAR ADC Based on a Novel Low Power Switching Strategy[J]. Microelectronics, 2024, 54(1): 25

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    Received: May. 25, 2023

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    Published Online: Aug. 7, 2024

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    DOI:10.13911/j.cnki.1004-3365.230211

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