Performance Analysis for Energy-Efficient Comparators

Abstract

This work studies three different comparator proposed in recent years. Compared to the strnongARM latch as well as the Elzakker’s comparator, the dynamic comparator added cross-coupled devices that keeps the pre-amplifier’s integration nodes from fully discharge to the ground and thus improves energy performance. The dynamic bias latch-type comparator is an innovative design which added a tail capacitor to the pre-amplifier in order to block off the discharge route between the internal nodes and the ground. Though this design reduced the energy consumption significantly compared with the Elzakker’s comparator, it results in longer delay and only little improvement on the input-referred noise. The FIA dynamic comparator implemented a floating inverter amplifier (FIA) that utilizes a reservoir capacitor which cuts off its charging path and discharging path significantly reduced the energy consumption and improved noise performance to power itself.