Systematic Design for Power Minimization of Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converters

  • Authors:
  • Reza Lotfi;Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani;M. Yaser Azizi;Omid Shoaei

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Tehran, Iran;Univ. of Tehran, Iran;Univ. of Tehran, Iran;Univ. of Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper a general method to design a pipelined ADC withminimum power consumption is presented. By expressing the totalpower consumption and the total input-referred noise of theconverter as functions of the capacitor values and the resolutions ofthe converter stages, an optimization algorithm is employed tocalculate the optimum values of these parameters, which lead tominimum power consumption while a specific noise requirement issatisfied. To determine the bias current values of operationalamplifiers an optimal choice for settling and slewing timeparameters is proposed. A practical design example is presented toshow the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.