A Low-Power Reduced Kick-Back Comparator with Improved Calibration for High-Speed Flash ADCs

作者:Torfs Guy*; Li Zhisheng; Bauwelinck Johan; Yin Xin; Vandewege Jan; Van Der Plas Geert
来源:IEICE - Transactions on Electronics, 2009, E92C(10): 1328-1330.
DOI:10.1587/transele.E92.C.1328

摘要

A novel low-power kick-back reduced comparator for use in high-speed flash analog-to-digital converters (ADC) is presented. The proposed comparator combines cascode transistors to reduce the kick-back noise with a built-in threshold voltage to remove the static power consumption of a reference. Without degrading other figures, the kick-back noise is reduced by a factor 8, compared to a previous design without cascode transistors. An improved calibration structure is also proposed to improve linearity when used in an ADC. Simulated in a standard CMOS technology the comparator consumes 106.5 mu W at 1.8 V power supply and 1 GHz clock frequency.

  • 出版日期2009-10