Abstract
The current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is the most common type of DAC for high-speed applications. Glitches present in the DAC output contribute to nonlinear distortion in the DAC transfer characteristics degrading the circuit performance. One source of glitches is asymmetry in the settling behavior when switching on and off a current source. A behavioral-level model of this nonideal behavior is derived in this work. Further, a method with low computational complexity for estimating the influence of the modeled errors in the frequency domain is developed. This method can be utilized by circuit designers to derive circuit requirements for fulfilling a given frequency-domain specification, potentially relaxing the requirements compared with a worst-case analysis. Examples of model utilization are given in terms of an analytical examination and MATLAB simulations. A good agreement between simulated and analytical results is obtained.
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