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The Design Rule Check (DRC) and the Layout Versus Schematic (LVS) were performed for the final layout using Mentor IC-station and Design Architect. After the successful DRC and LVS checks, the final layout was transferred to the fabrication in the GDSII format. The chip was fabricated using a 0.35 m CMOS technology.
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Table 16-3 Spectrum due to Switching Transients (Peak-Hold Measurement, 30 kHz Filter Bandwidth, Reference ≥ 300 kHz with zero offset)
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16.9 D/A Converter
As the multicarrier feature requires high dynamic range requirements for the D/A converter, the wordlength was chosen to be 14 bit. The 14-bit on-chip D/A converter is based on a segmented current steering architecture [Bos01]. It consists of a 6b MSB matrix (2b binary and 4b thermometer coded), and an 8b binary coded LSB matrix (Figure 16-12). The static linearity is achieved by sizing the current sources for intrinsic matching [Bos01] and by using layout techniques; this is a prerequisite for obtaining good dynamic linearity. The cascode structure is used to increase the output impedance of the unit current source, which improves the linearity of the D/A-converter.
The dynamic linearity is important in this IF modulator because of the strongly varying signal. Therefore, well-designed and carefully laid out switch drivers and current switches are used. A major function of the switch driver in Figure 16-12 is to adjust the crosspoint of the control voltages, and to limit their amplitude at the gates of the current switches, in such a way that these transistors are never simultaneously in the off state and that the feedthrough is minimized. The crossing point of the control signals is set by delaying the falling edge of the signal [Tak91]. Dummy switch transistors are used to improve the synchronization of the switch transistors control sig-
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nals. Disturbances connected to the external bias current are filtered out onchip with a simple one pole low-pass filter. The D/A-converter is implemented with a differential design, which results in reduced even-order distortions and provides a common-mode rejection of disturbances.
16.10 Measurement Results
To evaluate the multi-standard modulator, a test board was built and a computer program was developed to control the measurements. Figure 16-13 illustrates the block diagram of the multi-standard modulator test system. The on-chip D/A converter was used in measurements. Measurements are performed with a 50 Ω doubly terminated cable. The sampling rate of the D/A converter was 76.8 MHz in the measurement. Figure 16-14 shows that typical integral linearity (INL) and differential linearity (DNL) errors are
Table 16-4
Performance Summary
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