Design of a parallel low power flash A/D converter for the sub-sampling IR-UWB receiver

  • Authors:
  • Shenjie Wang;Catherine Dehollain;Zhiliang Hong

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of ASIC & Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China 201203;RFIC Group, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;State Key Laboratory of ASIC & Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China 201203

  • Venue:
  • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper presents the design of a dual-channel 4-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for the sub-sampling impulse radio ultra-wideband receiver with the sampling rate of 2.112 GS/s. The ADC's specifications are optimized at the system level. Two parallel channels help to achieve high conversion speed and low power consumption. To tackle the problem of clock mismatch between the channels, a twice sampling front end is used. An improved averaging termination technique using intended asymmetric spatial filter response is proposed. This circuit is designed in a 0.13 μm CMOS technology with 1.2 V power supply. Simulation results show a 26 dB SNDR at 2.112 GHz sampling rate with 36 mW power consumption and the effective figure of merit value is 0.24 pJ/step.