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Journal article (2013)

Authors

Y. Chae Yonsei University
K. Souri Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
K.A.A. Makinwa Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
Research Group
Electronic Instrumentation (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2013 Y. Chae, K. Souri, K.A.A. Makinwa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2013.2278737
Delta-sigma ADC SAR ADC Zoom ADC A/D conversion And dynamic error correction techniques Battery-powered sensors Incremental ADC Low power circuits inverter-based integrator
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Published Date

2013

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Microelectronics

Research Group

Electronic Instrumentation

Abstract

A 20-bit incremental ADC for battery-powered sensor applications is presented. It is based on an energy-efficient zoom ADC architecture, which employs a coarse 6-bit SAR conversion followed by a fine 15-bit ΔΣ conversion. To further improve its energy efficiency, the ADC employs integrators based on cascoded dynamic inverters for extra gain and PVT tolerance. Dynamic error correction techniques such as auto-zeroing, chopping and dynamic element matching are used to achieve both low offset and high linearity. Measurements show that the ADC achieves 20-bit resolution, 6 ppm INL and 1 μV offset in a conversion time
of 40 ms, while drawing only 3.5 μA current from a 1.8 V supply. This corresponds to a state-of-the-art figure-of-merit (FoM) of 182.7 dB. The 0.35 mm² chip was fabricated in a standard 0.16 μm CMOS process.