Microprocessors, Volume. , Issue 3, 33(2025)

Design of 12-bit SAR ADC based on low power capacitor switch procedure

TONG Jixiang, SHEN Rensheng, WANG Jiaqi, and XU Ning
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  • School of Integrated Circuits, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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    The power consumption of successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) is mainly derived from three modules: DAC, comparator and SAR logic. Among them, the energy consumed by DAC capacitor array during charge and discharge is an important factor affecting the overall power consumption of SAR ADC. Therefore, the design of low-power capacitor switch procedure is particularly critical. Traditional VCM-based capacitor switch procedure is widely used in the design of SAR ADC capacitor switching schemes due to its relatively simple working principle and implementation mode. However, when the comparator results are opposite, the power consumption of switching will increase significantly. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a segmented capacitor split VCM-based capacitor switch procedure, which can effectively reduce the power consumption of the capacitor switch, and designs a 12-bit 10MS/s low-power SAR ADC based on 65nm LP CMOS technology.

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jun. 3, 2024

    Accepted: Aug. 25, 2025

    Published Online: Aug. 25, 2025

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    DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1002-2279.2025.03.006

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