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Table II Comparison of the proposed A/D converter with the previous ratio-independent A/D converters [4.4]-[4.5].
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This work |
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Major source of error is the loading of the reference resistor ladder by the
comparator bank.
Resistor ladder loading errors are of two types:
(1)"Transient error" associated with instantaneous ladder loading during a single measurement;
(2)Long-term "recovery error" associated with errors at a new input level after the ladder has been loaded for a long period by inputs at another level.
If the capacitor bypassing is performed at the externally accessable ladder
midpoint tap,
Þtransient impedance ¯ by a factor of more than 4.
ÞWorst-case static loading which can't be bypassed makes recovery errors
the significant error source.
* All the errors considered above are of this type.
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Power dissipation at 15 MHz clock, 20 pF/output. |
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convert mode |
50mW |
145mW |
Tracking mode |
45mW |
130mW |
3.2V reference |
9mW |
9mW |
Input Cap. |
8 pF |
8 pF |
Recom. Vref |
3.2V |
6.4V |
On-chip Zener Reference |
3.2V |
6.4V |
Input voltage source resistance |
75W |
75W |
Accuracy 15MHz |
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20MHz |
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25MHz |
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1.5 LSB |
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§13-5.2 7-Bit CMOS Flash ADC for Video Applications
Ref.: IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. sc-21, pp. 436-440, June, 1986
Overall schematic:
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R:Polysilicon resistor, 10 Ω / bit 2μm Poly-gate VLSI CMOS Overall ship area: 135×142 mil2
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Comparator and the primary latch
+VDD
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(2)it can reduce the amount of hysteresis to ~ 100mV by setting "Latch"
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§13-5.4 Metastability error
Ref.: IEEE JSSC, vol. 31, pp. 1132-1140, Aug. 1996, 7-b 80-MHz flash ADC
Metastability error: occurs in ADCs when undefined comparator outputs pass through the encoder to the converter output bits.
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*Metastability error rate is an exponential function of the sampling frequency.
*It is nearly independent of the input frequency.
*At 70-MHz sampling frequeny, the metastability error rate is ~ 10-7 errors/cycle.
Þ7 errors per second
*Can be improved to < 10-12 errors/cycle.
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§13-6 Two-Step Flash or Subranging ADC
Conventional two-step A/D converter:
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Two-step A/D converter with single resister ladder:
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