Digital Error Correction Logic for Pipelined ADC Using 1.5Bits/Stage

Abstract

Low power, high resolution and high-speed ADCs are becoming increasingly important with advancements in portable electronics, from mobile phones and pagers to CD players and MP3 players. This is certainly not feasible on a handheld device which is why new ADC techniques must be developed. They are becoming increasingly attractive to major data converter manufacturers and their designers because pipeline ADCs provide an optimal balance of scale, speed, resolution, power dissipation and analogue design effort. Because of latency and errors in comparators & gain stages in pipelined ADCs, the need arises for digital error correction mechanism. The digital error correction logic will be implemented for 8-bit ADC using 1.5 bits per stage. While designing we are considering important parameters of CMOS like propagation delay performance and power dissipation. The VLSI realization of digital arithmetic is implemented using TANNER EDA software tool using 0.18µm CMOS process.