A High Speed DAC Architecture for Continuous Time Pipeline ADC

This thesis provides an investigation of the architecture and the design of the coarse DACs in continuous time pipeline (CTP) ADC to achieve high SFDR performance within a large bandwidth at sampling frequency of 4.8 GHz in TSMC 28nm technology.<br style="box-sizing: border-box"/> Mismatch errors of the coarse DACs in CTP ADC are very...

SPAD-based Light Detection and Ranging for 3D imaging: Receiver operation and in-pixel TDC design for automotive application

In this work, a SPAD-based LiDAR system is studied. In particular, the system employs a direct time-of-flight (dToF) method to reconstruct a target-reflected pulses using histogram, from which the distance to the target is estimated. More particularly, a time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) method has been used to record the flight...

Wideband Hybrid pipeline ADC

To be able to cope with the demands of next generation radar applications, a bandwidth of 400MHz is required. The SAR assisted CT ∆Σ ADC provides an energy efficient ADC, but needs improvements to cope with the bandwidth enlargement. This thesis examines the front end components and thus initially focuses on resolving the issues in the front end...

A Fully-Passive Noise-Shaping SAR for use in a Zoom ADC

The ΔΣ analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is widely used in audio applications for its high resolution. However, it is less energy efficient compared to Nyquist Rate ADCs. The growing demand for portable and wearable devices poses a more stringent power-efficient requirement on the audio system, and the traditional ADCs architecture is hard to...

An Error Feedback Noise Shaping SAR ADC

Analog-to-digital converters are important blocks in any electronic system which act as a bridge between analog signals and digital processors. The conventional SAR ADC employs a binary search algorithm and has emerged as the most suitable solution for low-power applications, due to its excellent power efficiency. The proposed ADC architecture...