A Capacitively Degenerated 100-dB Linear 20-150 MS/s Dynamic Amplifier

Md Shakil Akter*, Kofi A.A. Makinwa, Klaas Bult

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Abstract

This paper presents a new dynamic residue amplifier topology for pipelined analog-to-digital converters. With an input signal of 100 mVpp,diff and 4 × gain, it achieves-100-dB total harmonic distortion, the lowest ever reported for a dynamic amplifier. Compared to the state of the art, it exhibits 25 dB better linearity with twice the output swing and similar noise performance. The key to this performance is a new linearization technique based on capacitive degeneration, which exploits the exponential voltage-to-current relationship of MOSFET in weak inversion. The prototype amplifier is fabricated in a 28-nm CMOS process and dissipates only 87 μW at a clock speed of 43 MS/s, thereby improving the energy per cycle by 26 × compared with that of state-of-the-art high-linearity amplifiers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1115-1126
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits
Volume53
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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Keywords

  • Amplifier
  • analog linearization technique
  • analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
  • capacitive degeneration
  • cross-coupled capacitors
  • digital nonlinearity calibration
  • dynamic residue amplifier
  • integrator
  • split-capacitor technique

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