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In this article, an efficient technique is introduced to extract the quantization noise of a multi-phase voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based quantizer (VCOQ) in the time domain as a pulsewidth modulated (PWM) signal. Using this technique, a new highly linear VCO-based 1-1 multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) structure is presented. This architecture ...Show More
In this paper a novel technique is introduced to extract the quantization noise of a multi-phase VCO-based quantizer (VCOQ) in the time domain as a PWM signal. Using this technique, a new highly linear VCO-based 1-1 MASH delta-sigma ADC structure is presented. This architecture does not require any OTA-based analog integrators or power hungry linearization methods. The first stage is a closed loop...Show More
A 0-2 Multi Stage Noise Shaping (MASH) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is proposed. A SAR ADC and a VCO-based quantizer (VCOQ) are used in the first stage and second stages, respectively. The VCOQ proposed in this paper achieves second-order noise shaping by employing an error feedback architecture. The error feedback architecture is implemented by extracting the quantization noise of the VCOQ a...Show More
In this paper, a new voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based 1-1 MASH delta-sigma ADC structure is presented. The proposed architecture does not require any operational transconductance amplifier-based analog integrators or integrating capacitors. Second-order noise shaping is achieved by using a VCO as an integrator in the feedback loop of the first stage and an open-loop VCO quantizer in the s...Show More
This brief presents the design and implementation of a new blocker tolerant wideband continuous-time delta-sigma modulator. Using a customized digital integrator with inherent data-weighted averaging at the back-end of the modulator, the power consumption of the quantizer is reduced while the speed of operation is increased. Additionally, by using a single amplifier biquad structure in the loop fi...Show More
A highly linear SAR-VCO MASH delta-sigma ADC architecture is presented. OTA based analog integrators are not needed whereby the ADC is mostly digital and process scaling friendly. A new technique is introduced to extract the quantization noise of the VCO-based quantizer as a PWM signal using digital circuitry. This technique is independent of the OSR and the input signal amplitude of the VCO-based...Show More
A novel switched-capacitor low-pass filter architecture is presented. In the proposed scheme, a feedback path is added to a charge-rotating real-pole filter to implement complex poles. The selectivity is enhanced, and the in-band loss is reduced compared with the real-pole filter. The output thermal noise level and the tuning range are both close to those of the real-pole filter. These features ma...Show More
In this paper a new VCO-based MASH delta-sigma ADC structure is presented. The proposed architecture does not require any OTA-based analog integrators or integrating capacitors. Second-order noise shaping is achieved by using a VCO as an integrator in the feedback loop of the first stage and an open loop VCO quantizer in the second stage. Simple digital circuitry extracts the phase quantization er...Show More
A novel sequential inter-stage correlated double sampling technique has been proposed. This technique provides considerable enhancement in the effective accuracy of a switched-capacitor architecture. Superior accuracy and thermal noise performance is achieved compared to the conventional correlated double sampling technique. The proposed approach provides higher input signal bandwidth by reducing ...Show More
In this work the design of a low power 10-bit 100MS/s pipeline ADC is presented. Low power consumption is realized by using an optimum bit per stage resolution and also by applying the correlated level shifting (CLS) technique for the first four stages. Moreover, by obviating the need for a first stage S/H, power consumption was reduced considerably. The first stage of the pipeline has a 2.5-bit r...Show More
In this paper, a high speed latch architecture is proposed. This latch is based on a modified CML architecture, in which the tail current source is removed. To further increase the speed, shunt peaking is used. This technique can be implemented using passive or active inductors. Active inductors require smaller on-chip implementation area, but impose some drawbacks such as nonlinearity and noise. ...Show More
In this paper, a high speed latch architecture is proposed. This latch is based on a modified CML architecture, in which the tail current source is removed. To further increase the speed, shunt peaking is used. This technique can be implemented using passive or active inductors. Active inductors require smaller on-chip implementation area, but impose some drawbacks such as nonlinearity and noise. ...Show More