A dynamic power-efficient 4 GS/s CMOS comparator

MA Dehkordi, M Dousti, SM Mirsanei… - AEU-International Journal …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a mid-stage latch circuit to be employed in a high-speed comparator.
The advantages of the proposed circuit are low kickback noise and offset. Moreover, low …

Ultra-low power SAR ADC using statistical characteristics of low-activity signals

H Nasiri, C Li, L Zhang - … on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-activity signals, such as voice, electrocardiogram (ECG), and ultrasonic signals, in the
Internet-of-Things applications have both posed unique challenges and offered special …

A Two-Stage Sub-Threshold Voltage Reference Generator Using Body Bias Curvature Compensation for Improved Temperature Coefficient

M Azimi, M Habibi, P Crovetti - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Leakage diodes cause deviations in the thermal drift of ultra-low-power two-transistor (2T)
reference circuits, resulting in either convex or concave output voltages against temperature …

A 25Gb/s RX front-end with multi-stage linear equalizer and 3-tap speculative DFE in 65nm CMOS technology

K Zhu, S Li, G Chu - IEICE Electronics Express, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This work proposes a RX front-end structure, which is used for channel equalization of 25
Gb/s high-speed links. This design includes two parts, linear equalizer and decision …

56 Gb/s PAM4 receiver with an overshoot compensation scheme in 28 nm CMOS technology

A He, W Gai, B Ye, B Zhang, K Sheng, Y Li - Microelectronics Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract A 56 Gbps 2-tap 4-level pulse amplitude modulation closed-loop decision feedback
equalizer (DFE) is designed in 28 nm CMOS technology. The first-tap feedback signal …

Design and Implementation of a 16-bit Multi-mode 4-Channel Time-Interleaved Delta-Sigma Modulator with SNDR> 106 dB and DCE Compensation Based on FPGA

A Roshanpanah, P Torkzadeh, K Hajsadeghi… - Circuits, Systems, and …, 2024 - Springer
In this research, a second-order delta-sigma modulator (DSM) with 16-bit resolution is
implemented in VHDL and based on FPGA with a time-interleaved (TI) structure. The …

Pipelined PAM-4 Direct Decision-Feedback Equalizer for Short-Reach Applications

M Deghadi, D El-Damak, S Ibrahim - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new quarter-rate 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4)
decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) architecture targeting short-reach and the onset of …

Static-Linearity Enhancement Techniques for Digital-to-Analog Converters Exploiting Optimal Arrangements of Unit Elements

F Gagliardi, D Scintu, M Piotto… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the ongoing challenge of designing high-accuracy digital-to-analog converters
(DACs) at the cost of a relatively small area occupation, optimal combination algorithms …

A Power-Efficient Successive Approximation Algorithm for Low-Activity Signals

H Nasiri, C Li, L Zhang - 2023 18th Conference on Ph. D …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new successive approximation algorithm that can digitize the second-
order difference of signal samples rather than each sample point individually or plain …

The sampling network for a 16-channel time-interleaved ADC

P Ji, C Liu, L Dang, S Li, R Ding, S Liu, Z Zhu - Microelectronics Journal, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design of a sampling network for an 8-bit, 16 GS/s, 16-channel time-
interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) implemented in a 28 nm CMOS process. The …