A low-power 10-bit 6.66 MS/s CMOS SAR ADC with built-in digital calibration dedicated to Wireless Sensor Networks applications

Authors

  • Felipe Makara UFPR
  • Lucas Mangini da Silva UFPR
  • Luis Henrique Assumpção Lolis UFPR
  • Andre Mariano UFPR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29292/jics.v13i3.4

Keywords:

ADC, low-power, SAR, CMOS, self-calibrator

Abstract

In this paper, an energy-efficient SAR ADC for IoT applications is presented. The proposed ADC relies on a built-in calibration circuit to improve accuracy and introduces an original DAC that merges the concepts of binary-weighted and C/2C arrays in order to achieve a favorable trade-off between area, accuracy and power consumption. The system consumes 58 µW per conversion cycle sampling at a frequency of 6.66 MHz with an SNDR of 49.78 dB for a 1MHz input signal. With an ENOB of 8 bits, the resulting FOM is 34fJ/conversion-step.

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Published

2018-12-12