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Digitally Synthesized Stochastic Flash ADC Using Only Standard Digital Cells
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Digitally Synthesized Stochastic Flash ADC Using Only Standard Digital Cells |
| Names |
Weaver, Skyler
(creator) Hershberg, Benjamin (creator) Moon, Un-Ku (creator) |
| Date Issued | 2014-01 (iso8601) |
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| Abstract | It is demonstrated in this paper that it is possible to synthesize a stochastic flash ADC entirely from Verilog code and a standard digital library. An analog comparator is introduced that is constructed from two cross-coupled 3-input digital NAND gates, and can be described in Verilog. The synthesized comparators have random, Gaussian offsets that are used as virtual voltage references to make a flash ADC. A piecewise-linear inverse Gaussian CDF function is used to correct the nonlinearity introduced by the Gaussian offset distribution. The prototype IC is fabricated in 90nm CMOS and implements a 2047-comparator version of the proposed architecture. All components including the comparators, the ones adder, and the piecewise inverse Gaussian function are all implemented in Verilog. Conventional digital synthesis and place-and-route is then used to generate the physical layout, making this the first fully synthesized ADC. SNDR of 35.9dB (without calibration) is achieved at 210MSPS from the Verilog synthesized design. |
| Genre | Article |
| Topic | Analog-digital conversion |
| Identifier | Weaver, S., Hershberg, B., & Moon, U. (2014). Digitally synthesized stochastic flash ADC using only standard digital cells. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 61(1), 84-91. doi:10.1109/TCSI.2013.2268571 |
