An 80-MS/s 14-bit pipelined ADC featuring 83 dB SFDR

Abstract

An 80-MS/s 14-bit pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is presented in this paper. After gain error and offset extraction from prototype measurement, the improved circuit achieves spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of 82.9 dB and signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SINAD) of 64.1 dB for a 30.5 MHz input, maintained within 6 dB performance deterioration up to 170 MHz input. Differential nonlinearity (DNL) is 0.66 LSB and integral nonlinearity (INL) is 2.5 LSB. Low-jitter clock amplifier and buffers with balanced loads are used to reduce the jitter and skew between different stages. An on-chip voltage reference generator is schemed with low impedance to reduce noise and spurs of reference signals. The ADC is fabricated in a 0.18-μm CMOS process with core area of 3.86 mm2, and consumes 518 mW at 1.8 V supply.