Delay-Locked Loop Based Multiphase Clock Generator for Time-Interleaved ADCs

Author(s):  
Ibrahim Alhousseiny ◽  
Mohamed Ali ◽  
Naim Ben-Hamida ◽  
Mohammad Honarparvar ◽  
Mohamad Sawan ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (06) ◽  
pp. 1550093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dengquan Li ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Zhangming Zhu ◽  
Yintang Yang

This paper presents an 8-bit configurable time-interleaved (TI) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). By using a mode selection circuit, four modes of sampling rate are provided: Single channel at 333.3 MS/s, 2-channel at 666.7 MS/s, 3-channel at 1 GS/s and 6-channel at 2 GS/s. An on-chip delay-locked loop (DLL) uniformly generates six-phase clock with 20% duty cycle, and the timing errors are reduced to a tolerable range. In low sampling rate modes, the corresponding sampling switches and comparators in the idle sub-ADCs are shut down to save power consumption. Based on the 65-nm CMOS technology, the post-layout simulation results show that at 1.2 V supply, the proposed ADC consumes 8.6, 10.9, 13.1 and 19.9 mW under different modes. With an ENOB of 7.92, 7.34, 7.01 and 6.37 bit, this results in a FOM of 106.6, 100.9, 101.6 and 120.3 fJ/conversion-step respectively.


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