Testing and Evaluation of a 20-Gsps High-Resolution Waveform Digitizer Based on TIADC Technique

Abstract

Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Conversion (TIADC) is one of the significant technique in high speed waveform digitization systems. In our latest work, a 20-Gsps 12-bit TIADC system is designed and a series of tests are conducted on the proposed system and a broadband mismatch error correction is implemented. The test methods and results are specifically presented in this paper. The test results show that the -3dB bandwidth of the proposed system is 6 GHz and the ENOB performance is about 8.7 bits at 647 MHz and 7.6 bits at 6 GHz which is significantly enhanced by the mismatch error correction process.