Analysis and Design of a New 10-Bit High Accuracy and Resolution TDC by Elimination of Offset Voltage and Parasitic Capacitors Effects

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Rezvanyvardom ◽  
Amin Mirzaei
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Offset Voltage ◽  
Input Signals ◽  
Pvt Variations ◽  
Low Sensitivity ◽  
Comparator Offset

This paper investigates a time-to-digital converter (TDC) that employs interpolation and time stretching techniques for digitizing the time interval between the rising edges of two input signals as well as increasing the resolution. In the proposed TDC, interpolation is performed based on a dual-slope conversion. The proposed converter eliminates the comparator offset voltage error and the comparator parasitic capacitor error compared with the TDCs that have been proposed previously. The features of the converter consist of the high accuracy and high resolution due to elimination of errors and usage of the analog interpolation structure. Moreover, it does not use gated delay lines in its structure and has the advantage of low sensitivity to the temperature, power supply and process (PVT) variations. For validation, the proposed TDC is designed in TSMC 0.18[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m CMOS technology and simulated by Hspice simulator. The comparison between the theoretical and simulation results confirms the benefits of the proposed TDC operation. The results prove that it can be employed for high speed and resolution applications.

A New Triple-Slope Pipelined Time to Digital Converter by Stretching of Time

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (09) ◽  
pp. 1550135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Rezvanyvardom ◽  
Ebrahim Farshidi
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Circuit Complexity ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Chip Area ◽  
Differential Nonlinearity ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Pvt Variations ◽  
Low Sensitivity ◽  
Time Stretching

This study investigates a novel approach for pipeline time-to-digital converters (TDCs) which employs analog interpolation and time stretching techniques for digitizing the time interval between two input signals as well as increasing resolution. In the proposed converter, analog interpolation is performed based on a triple-slope conversion. This converter will be a 9-bit pipeline TDC which contains three time stretching amplifiers (TSAs) and four 2.5-b/stage TDCs. This converter does not use delay lines in its structure. It features low circuit complexity, low sensitivity to temperature, power supply and process (PVT) variations and high accuracy compared with the TDCs which have previously been proposed. Also, the time resolution, the dynamic range and the linear range of the TDC are improved. The proposed structure reduces the active chip area, the power consumption and the figure of merit (FoM). In addition, the integral nonlinearity (INL) and the differential nonlinearity (DNL) errors are reduced. In order to evaluate the idea, the TDC is designed in TSMC 45-nm CMOS technology and simulated. Comparison of the theoretical and simulation results confirms the benefits of the proposed TDC.

A RAIL-TO-RAIL BUFFER AMPLIFIER FOR LCD DRIVER

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 1377-1387 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHIH-WEN LU ◽  
CHING-MIN HSIAO
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Liquid Crystal Display ◽  
Stable State ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Offset Voltage ◽  
Rail To Rail ◽  
Lcd Driver ◽  
Display Driver ◽  
Buffer Amplifier ◽  
Voltage Swing

A high-speed low-power rail-to-rail buffer amplifier, which is suitable for liquid crystal display driver applications, is proposed. An offset voltage is intentionally built in the second stage to cut off the transistors of last stage from the output node in the stable state and hence achieve low dc power consumption. The input referred offset voltage due to the built-in offset is very small. The buffer draws little current while static but has a large driving capability while transient. An experimental prototype buffer amplifier implemented in a 0.35-μm CMOS technology demonstrates that the circuit can operate under a wide power supply range. Quiescent current of 5 μA is measured. The buffer exhibits the settling time of 1.5 μs for a voltage swing of 0.1 ~ (VDD – 0.1) V under a 600 pF capacitance load. The area of this buffer is 30 × 98 μm2. The measured data show that the proposed output buffer amplifier is very suitable for LCD driver applications.

DLL-Based Receiver for High Speed Data Transmission

2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 2471-2474
Author(s):  
Pu Luo
Keyword(s):  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Negative Feedback Loop ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
High Speed Data ◽  
Pvt Variations ◽  
Speed Data Transmission

For modern high speed DAC, receiving data reliably from FPGA is a big challenge, data-independent skew is the major problem. usually system employ data clock while transmitting LVDS data from FPGA. then LVDS data is latched by delayed data clock which generated by DLL in chip. Because DLL has a negative feedback loop, system suffer small effect of PVT variations, robustness is guaranteed. The receiving circuits were implemented in a all-digital 0.18μm CMOS technology ,occupies 0.7 mm2 of area. It operates in the frequency range of 20 MHz~600 MHz.

A Novel Pre-Amplifier for DTH in Folding and Interpolating ADC

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 367-371
Author(s):  
Jing Lei Han ◽  
Wen Lian Zhang ◽  
Zhi Biao Shao
Keyword(s):  
Power Dissipation ◽  
Software Defined Radio ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Device Mismatch ◽  
Offset Voltage ◽  
Gain Error ◽  
Input Range

A pre-amplifier for distributed track and hold (DTH) circuit in high speed and high resolution folding and interpolating analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is proposed. This scheme resolves several limitations of conventional differential difference pre-amplifier (DDPA) in low voltage supply, compared to the conventional DDPA, the proposed scheme increases the input range so that all DDPAs of DTH can operate effectively, improves the averaging effect of average network, saves the random offset voltage from device mismatch, decreases the gain error of DTH, reduces the output common-mode (CM) deviation of DTH, and enhances the CM rejection of DTH. Based on SMIC 0.18μm CMOS technology and 1.8V power supply, over the input range, results from spectre shows dummy DDPAs of DTH operate effectively, the offset of output CM voltage of DTH decrease to less than 2mV, gain error decrease to less than 1%, the gain of middle novel pre-amplifier and boundary novel pre-amplifier are both 2.5, bandwidths are all above 1.9GHZ, while power dissipation of each DDPA is 3.22mW. The high CM rejection and low gain error decrease the quantification error effectively, and enhance the performance of ADC. The design meets the requirement of ADC applied to software defined radio (SDR).

scholarly journals MCML D-Latch Using Triple-Tail Cells: Analysis and Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirti Gupta ◽  
Neeta Pandey ◽  
Maneesha Gupta
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Analytical Modeling ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Current Mode ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Power Efficient ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Current Mode Logic ◽  
Voltage Swing

A new low-voltage MOS current mode logic (MCML) topology for D-latch is proposed. The new topology employs a triple-tail cell to lower the supply voltage requirement in comparison to traditional MCML D-latch. The design of the proposed MCML D-latch is carried out through analytical modeling of its static parameters. The delay is expressed in terms of the bias current and the voltage swing so that it can be traded off with the power consumption. The proposed low-voltage MCML D-latch is analyzed for the two design cases, namely, high-speed and power-efficient, and the performance is compared with the traditional MCML D-latch for each design case. The theoretical propositions are validated through extensive SPICE simulations using TSMC 0.18 µm CMOS technology parameters.

scholarly journals A 5 Bit 600MS/S Asynchronous Digital Slope ADC with Modified Strong Arm Comparator

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1S5) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Keyword(s):  
Power Dissipation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Delay Cell ◽  
Offset Voltage ◽  
Static Power ◽  
Cell Sample ◽  
Low Offset

Strong arm comparator has some characteristics like it devours zero static power and yields rail to rail swing. It acquires a positive feedback allowed by two cross coupled pairs of comparators and results a low offset voltage in input differential stage. We modified a strong arm Comparator for high speed without relying on complex calibration Schemes. a 5- bit 600MS/s asynchronous digital slope analog to digital converter (ADS-ADC) with modified strong arm comparator designed in cadence virtuoso at 180nm CMOS technology. The design of SR-Latch using Pseudo NMOS NOR Gate optimizes the speed. Thus delay reduced in select signal generation block. Power dissipation is minimized with lesser transistor count in Strong arm comparator and SR-Latch with maximum sampling speed. The speed of the converter can be improved by resolution. The proposed circuit is 5-bit ADC containing a delay cell, Sample and hold, continuous time comparator, strong arm comparator, Pseudo NMOS SR-Latch and Multiplexer. This 5- bit ADC operates voltage at 1.8 volts and consumes an average power.

A 8GHz Differential Comparator for Ultra High Speed ADC in 90nm CMOS Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 4572-4575
Author(s):  
Zhong Ying Zhu ◽  
Hui Hong ◽  
Shi Liang Li
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Sampling Rate ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
Digital Converter ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Fully Differential ◽  
Offset Voltage ◽  
High Speed Adc ◽  
Sine Signal ◽  
Low Offset

A high speed, low offset fully differential comparator for high-speed analog-to-digital converter which can work at a sampling rate of 8GS/s is presented in this paper. The three-stage pre-amplifiers in the improved comparator structure is proposed to ameliorate its gain. The positive feedback regeneration circuit and the improved output buffer are used to ameliorate the comparator bandwidth. Operating with an input sine signal of 1GHz frequency, the circuit can oversample up to 8GS/s with 5bits of resolution. The simulated offset voltage of the comparator by Monte Carlo at 8GHz clock is 5.09mV.

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