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This book shows that digitally assisted analog to digital
converters are not the only way to cope with poor analog
performance caused by technology scaling. It describes various
analog design techniques that enhance the area and power efficiency
without employing any type of digital calibration circuitry. These
techniques consist of self-biasing for PVT enhancement,
inverter-based design for improved speed/power ratio, gain-of-two
obtained by voltage sum instead of charge redistribution, and
current-mode reference shifting instead of voltage reference
shifting. Together, these techniques allow enhancing the area and
power efficiency of the main building blocks of a multiplying
digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) based stage, namely, the flash
quantizer, the amplifier, and the switched capacitor network of the
MDAC. Complementing the theoretical analyses of the various
techniques, a power efficient operational transconductance
amplifier is implemented and experimentally characterized.
Furthermore, a medium-low resolution reference-free high-speed
time-interleaved pipeline ADC employing all mentioned design
techniques and circuits is presented, implemented and
experimentally characterized. This ADC is said to be reference-free
because it precludes any reference voltage, therefore saving power
and area, as reference circuits are not necessary. Experimental
results demonstrate the potential of the techniques which enabled
the implementation of area and power efficient circuits.
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