A 53mW IQ pipelined ADC for WLAN front end

  • Authors:
  • Mao Ye;Bin Wu;Yong-Xu Zhu;Dai Lan;Jianhua Jiang;Yumei Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China;Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China;Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China;North China University of Technology, Beijing, China;Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China;Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

This paper presents an analog to digital converter (ADC) architecture suitable for wideband wireless receiver system. The in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) ADCs work independently, but share on-chip reference buffer and non-overlapped clock generation block for balance between two channels. The single ADC core consists of one front sample and hold amplifier, four cascade of 2.5 bit pipeline stages with pseudo-class AB opamp shared between adjacent stages and one 2 bit backend flash stage. The prototype was fabricated in standard 130 nm CMOS process and occupied silicon area of 0.62 mm2. Performance of 66 dB spurious-free-dynamic-range is measured at 80 MS/s with 1 Vpp input signal. The power dissipation of the whole chip is only 53 mW from a 1.1 V supply.