Abstract
This paper proposes a passive switched-capacitor single-ended-to-differential-converter (SDC) as a front-end of a differential SAR ADC to enable digitization of single-ended signals. Compared to active SDC solutions or single-ended SAR ADCs, the proposed solution offers the smallest total capacitance as well as best power efficiency and least chip area. A noise analysis further shows that the passive SDC does not result in a noise penalty of the overall system. A prototype implementation in 65nm CMOS achieves a figure-of-merit of 6.1fJ/conversion-step at 20MS/s, while reaching an SNDR of 54.7dB up to Nyquist and occupying a chip area of only 60µm × 36µm.
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