A 12-bit 100MS/s SAR ADC With Equivalent Split-Capacitor and LSB-Averaging in 14-nm CMOS FinFET

This paper presents an energy-saving and high-resolution successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with 14-nm CMOS FinFET technology for wireless communication system. An Equivalent Split-Capacitor is proposed to enlarge redundancy range and alleviate the settling err...

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Main Authors: Yan Zheng, Jingchao Lan, Fan Ye, Junyan Ren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9648180/
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Summary:This paper presents an energy-saving and high-resolution successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with 14-nm CMOS FinFET technology for wireless communication system. An Equivalent Split-Capacitor is proposed to enlarge redundancy range and alleviate the settling error of the bridge capacitor array. A hybrid capacitor switching procedure is adopted to reduce power consumption and the variation of input common-mode voltage of the comparator. Measurement results of the 14-nm CMOS SAR-ADC achieves a SNDR of 61.29 dB and 58.34dB at low and Nyquist input frequency, respectively, resulting in figure-of-merits(FoMs) of 8.2 and 11.15fJ/conversion-step, respectively. The ADC core occupies an active area 0.112mm<sup>2</sup>.
ISSN:2169-3536