Chapter 10

Interleaving of Successive-Approximation Register ADCs in Deep Sub-Micron CMOS Technology

Kostas Doris, Erwin Janssen, Yu Lin, Athon Zanikopoulos and Alessandro Murroni,    NXP Semiconductors, High Tech Campus HTC32, 5656AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Introduction

The Successive-Approximation-Register ADC (SAR) architecture receives major attention nowadays because it adapts itself optimally to its deep sub-micron CMOS silicon medium, favoring its simplicity. Its most popular implementation, shown in Figure 10.1, consists of merely a comparator, logic, and a capacitor DAC [1] that approximates serially the input signal. SARs are considered slow converters due to their sequential algorithmic operation, but they cover up this weakness, ...

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