Design of A Low-Voltage and High-Speed Pipelined A/D Converter Using Current-Mode Signals

저전압 고속 전류형 Pipelined A/D 변환기의 설계

An 8-bit 2-stage pipelined current mode A/D converter is designed with a new architecture, where the wideband track-and-hold amplifiers which have 2 integrators in parallel sample input signal twice per clock cycle. The conversion speed of the A-D converter is two times faster than that of conventional pipelined method. The converter is designed to be operated at the power supply voltage of 3.3V with the input dynamic range of 0-256$\mu$A. HSPICE simulation results show the performance of up to 55Msamples/s and power consumption of 150mW with the parameters of ISRC $1.5\mu$m BICMOS process. The chip area is 3${\times}4mm^{2}$.