Dissertation
High speed data converter circuits in SI-GE
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
12/2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005798
Abstract
Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) with high speed and high accuracy play a critical role in electronics testing, scientific instrumentation, and digital communication systems. The performance of ADCs in this performance corner are limited by the input Track-and-Hold Amplifier (THA) that is used. Consequently, this input THA must have excellent thermal noise and jitter performance. Past THA designs were optimized for low signal distortion at the expense of voltage headroom, power consumption, thermal noise, and bandwidth. Current technology scaling makes it desirable to allow increased signal distortion, which will be compensated for in the digital domain. With the lower voltage headroom limitations of modern processes, digital distortion compensation will become essential in order to achieve ever higher sampling rates at high-accuracy. The purpose of this research was to design and fabricate an ADC using a THA based on this principle. Digital distortion compensation methods unique to the architecture of this ADC were also investigated. This document describes the design and performance of the ADC and evaluates the compensation algorithms.
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Details
- Title
- High speed data converter circuits in SI-GE
- Creators
- Dirk J. Robinson
- Contributors
- George S. La Rue (Chair)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 73
- Identifiers
- 99901055141001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation