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A 90.5dB DR 1MHz BW Hybrid Two Step ADC with CT Incremental and SAR ADCs
The sensors in real time data processing IoT devices require high resolution and sub-MHz data converters, usually implemented as Incremental ADCs due to the advantages of oversampling technique and low latency. In discrete time incremental (IDT) ADCs, the sampling switch non-linearity, charge injection degrade the resolution, and power hungry OPAMPs are demanded to provide fast and accurate settling for the switch-capacitor circuits. While the continuous time incremental (ICT) ADCs overcome these issues by removing the sampling switches and it also relax the OPAMPs settling accuracy to save power. A hybrid architecture of ICT ADC and SAR two step ADC is proposed to achieve high resolution at low oversampling ratio (OSR). The first ICT ADCs enable higher resolution, faster conversion speed with lower power consumption. The residual error of the ICT ADC is extracted at the last integrator output and transfers to the 2nd SAR for further conversion. In this architecture, only the mismatch between the cascade of integrators (CoIs) and decimation filter transfer functions causes 1st stage quantization noise leakage which can be solved by increasing opamp parameters instead of increasing the digital decimation filter complexity. In addition, the overall SQNR is independent of the first ICT ADC’s NTF, which gives more freedom to trade-off between the loop stability and DAC errors. A 4bits DRZ DAC with data weighted averaging (DWA) technique is adopted to reduce the clock jitter of DAC, mitigate ISI error and static mismatch errors. Based on this architecture, a 16b resolution, 1MHz signal bandwidth hybrid two step ADC is designed and measurement results are demonstrated. Important sub circuits are introduced and analyzed in detail to get the target resolution. The ADC is fabricated in AKM 180nm CMOS process with 1.8V supply voltage, it achieves a DR of 90.5dB, and SNR/SFDR/SNDR of 82.5dB/85dB/80.5dB over 1MHz BW sampled at 64MHz