• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.955-958
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 개방형 파이프라인 구조를 이용한 8비트 500Msamples/s ADC를 제안하였다. 8-비트의 해상도에 적합하면서 전력 소모가 적은 5 단 파이프라인 구조로 설계하였으며, 고속 동작에 적합하게 MUX 스위치에서 선택한 신호를 인터폴레이션하는 개방형 구조를 채택하였다. 전력 소모와 전체 칩 면적을 줄이기 위해서, 각 단에서 필요한 신호의 수를 줄이도록 설계하였다. 설계된 ADC 는 3 개의 신호를 이용하여 구현 함으로서 각 단에서의 증폭기 수틀 줄일 수 있었다. 또한 1.8V 의 낮은 전원 전압에 의한 작은 입력 범위에서 8-비트의 해상도를 만족하기 위해서 Offset Cancellation 기법을 사용하였다. 제안된 ADC 는 0.18μ m 일반 CMOS 공정을 이용하여 설계되었으며 시뮬레이션 결과 500Msamples/s에서 220mW의 전력 소모를 가지며, 1.2Vp-p (Differential) 입력 범위에 대해서 약 48dB의 SNDR을(8-비트의 해상도) 가짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.606-608
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• 2006

This paper describes a 8bit 10MS/s low power pipelined analog-to-digital converter(ADC). To reduce power consumption in proposed ADC, a high gain op-amp that consumes large power in MDAC(multiplying DAC) of conventional pipelined ADC is replaced with simple comparator and current sources. Moreover, differential charge transfer amplifier technique with latch in the sub-ADC reduces the power consumption to less than half compared with the conventional sub-ADC which use high speed comparator. The proposed ADC shows the power consumption of 1.8mW at supply voltage of 1.8V. This proposed ADC is suitable to apply to the portable display device. The circuit was implemented with 0.18um CMOS technology and the core size of circuit is 2.5mm${\times}$1mm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1444-1445
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• 2008

최근 Wireless Local Area Network(WLAN), Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access(WCDMA), CDMA2000, Bluetooth 등 다양한 모바일 통신 시스템에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있다. 이와 같은 모바일 통신 시스템에는 70dB이상의 SFDR(Spurious Free Dynamic Range)을 가진 ADC(Analog-to-Digital Converter)가 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 통신 시스템을 위한 SFDR 70dBc의 성능을 제공하는 10비트, 100Msps 파이프라인 ADC를 제안한다. 제안한 ADC는 요구되는 해상도 및 속도 사양을 만족시키기 위해 3단 파이프라인 구조를 채택하였으며, 입력단 SHA(Sample and Hold)회로에는 Nyquist 입력에서도 10비트 이상의 정확도로 신호를 샘플링하기 위해 부트스트래핑 기법 기반의 샘플링 스위치를 적용하였다. residue amplifier 회로에는 전력을 줄이기 위해 8배 residue amplifier 대신 3개의 2배 ressidue amplifier를 사용하였다. ADC의 높은 사양을 만족시키기 위해서는 높은 이득을 가지는 op-amp가 필수적이다. 제안한 ADC 는 0.18um CMOS 공정으로 설계되었으며, 100Msps의 동작 속도에서 70dBc 수준의 SFDR과 60dB 수준의 SNDR(Signal to Noise and Distortion Ratio)을 보여준다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.302-308
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• 2021

A 12-bit 10-MS/s pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is proposed for image processing applications. The proposed pipeline ADC consists of a sample and hold amplifier, three stages, a 3-bit flash analog-to-digital converter, and a digital error corrector. Each stage is operated by using a 4-bit flash ADC (FADC) and a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC). The proposed sample and hold amplifier increases the voltage gain using gain boosting for the ADC with high resolution. The proposed pipelined ADC is designed using a 180-nm CMOS process with a supply voltage of 1.8 and it has an effective number of bit (ENOB) of 10.52 bits at sampling rate of 10MS/s for a 1-V_pp differential sinusoidal analog input with frequency of 1 MHz. The measured ENOB is 10.12 bits when the frequency of the sinusoidal analog input signal is a Nyquist frequency of approximately 5 MHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.11
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• pp.16-23
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• 2009

A 12b 10MS/s pipelined ADC with low DC gain amplifiers is presented. The pipelined ADC using a reference scaling technique is proposed to compensate the gain error in MDACs due to a low DC gain amplifier. To minimize the performance degradation of the ADC due to amplifier offset, the proposed offset trimming circuit is employed m the first-stage MDAC amplifier. Additional reset switches are used in all MDACs to reduce the memory effect caused by the low DC gain amplifier. The measured differential and integral non-linearities of the prototype ADC with 45dB DC gain amplifiers are less than 0.7LSB and 3.1LSB, respectively. The prototype ADC is fabricated in a $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS process and achieves 62dB SNDR and 72dB SFDR with 2.4V supply and 10MHz sampling frequency while consuming 19mW power.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.545-552
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• 2011

In this article, reference voltages in a general flash ADC are not obtained from a series of resistors but floating gates. When a behavior model simulation was performed in a pipelined ADC including the suggested flash ADC as a result of an ADC's overall function, it showed results that SNR is approximately 77 dB and resolution is 12 bit. And more than almost 90% showed INL within ${\pm}0.5$ LSB, and like INL, more than 90% showed DNL within ${\pm}0.5$ LSB.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.2
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• pp.195-202
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• 2004

This paper introduces the design or parallel Pipeline high-speed analog-to-digital converter(ADC) for the high-resolution video applications which require very precise sampling. The overall architecture of the ADC consists of 4-channel parallel time-interleaved 10-bit pipeline ADC structure a]lowing 200MSample/s sampling speed which corresponds to 4-times improvement in sampling speed per channel. Key building blocks are composed of the front-end sample-and-hold amplifier(SHA), the dynamic comparator and the 2-stage full differential operational amplifier. The 1-bit DAC, comparator and gain-2 amplifier are used internally in each stage and they were integrated into single switched capacitor architecture allowing high speed operation as well as low power consumption. In this work, the gain of operational amplifier was enhanced significantly using negative resistance element. In the ADC, a delay line Is designed for each stage using D-flip flops to align the bit signals and minimize the timing error in the conversion. The converter has the power dissipation of 280㎽ at 3.3V power supply. Measured performance includes DNL and INL of +0.7/-0.6LSB, +0.9/-0.3LSB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.69-75
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• 2004

This work proposes an 8b 220 MS/s 230 mW 3-stage pipeline CMOS ADC with on-chip filers for temperature- and power- insensitive voltage references. The proposed RC low-pass filters improve switching noise performance and reduce reference settling time at heavy R & C loads without conventional off-chip large bypass capacitors. The prototype ABC fabricated in a 0.25 um CMOS occupies the active die area of 2.25 $\textrm{mm}^2$ and shows the measured DNL and INL of maximum 0.43 LSB and 0.82 LSB, respectively. The ADC maintains the SNDR of 43 dB and 41 dB up to the 110 MHz input at 200 MS/s and 220 MS/s, respectively, while the SNDR at the 500 MHz input is degraded as much as only 3 dB than the SNDR at the 110 MHz input.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.10C
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• pp.1019-1024
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• 2007

In this paper, the 10bit 20MHz pipelined analog-to-digital converter that is able to apply to WLAN system was modeled for ADC design. Each blocks in converter such as sample and hold amplifier(SHA), comparator, multiplyng DAC(MDAC), and digital correction logic(DCL) was modeled. The pipelined ADC with these modeled blocks takes 1/50 less time than the one of simulation using HSPICE.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.1A
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• pp.104-112
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• 2005

Some design techniques for high speed and low power pipelined 8-bit ADC are described. To perform high-speed operation with relatively low power consumption, open loop architecture is adopted, while closed loop architecture (with MDAC) is used in conventional pipeline ADC. A distributed track and hold amplifier and a cascading structure are also adopted to increase the sampling rate. To reduce the power consumption and the die area, the number of amplifiers in each stage are optimized and reduced with proposed zero-crossing point generation method. At 500-MHz sampling rate, simulation results show that the power consumption is 210mW including digital logic with 1.8V power supply. And the targeted ADC achieves ENOB of about 8-bit with input frequency up to 200-MHz and input range of 1.2Vpp (Differential). The ADC is designed using a $0.18{\mu}m$ 6-Metal 1-Poly CMOS process and occupies an area of $900{\mu}m{\times}500{\mu}m$