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Conference paper (2019) - Jing Li, Zhao Chen, Mingliang Tan, Douwe Van Willigen, Chao Chen, Zu Yao Chang, Emile Noothout, Nico De Jong, Martin Verweij, Michiel Pertijs
This paper presents an ultrasound receiver ASIC in 180nm CMOS that enables element-level digitization of echo signals in miniature 3D ultrasound probes. It is the first to integrate an analog front-end and a 10-b Nyquist ADC within the 150 μ m element pitch of a 5-MHz 2D transducer array. To achieve this, a hybrid SAR/shared-single-slope architecture is proposed in which the ramp generator is shared within each 2 × 2 subarray. The ASIC consumes 1.54mW/element and has been successfully demonstrated in an acoustic imaging experiment. ...