Trending IC design directions in 2022

CH Chan, L Cheng, W Deng, P Feng… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
For the non-stop demands for a better and smarter society, the number of electronic devices
keeps increasing exponentially; and the computation power, communication data rate, smart …

An overview of noise-shaping SAR ADC: From fundamentals to the frontier

L Jie, X Tang, J Liu, L Shen, S Li… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Noise-Shaping (NS) SAR is an attractive new ADC architecture that emerged in the last
decade. It combines the advantages of the SAR and the DSM architectures. NS SAR shows …

A 13.5-ENOB, 107-μW noise-shaping SAR ADC with PVT-robust closed-loop dynamic amplifier

X Tang, X Yang, W Zhao, CK Hsu, J Liu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a second-order noise-shaping (NS) successive approximation register
(SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) …

A cascaded noise-shaping SAR architecture for robust order extension

L Jie, B Zheng, HW Chen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging noise-shaping (NS) successive approximation (SAR) architecture is highly
efficient and compact; however, the order and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of sub-MHz NS …

A 90-dB-SNDR calibration-free fully passive noise-shaping SAR ADC with 4× passive gain and second-order DAC mismatch error shaping

J Liu, X Wang, Z Gao, M Zhan, X Tang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noise-shaping (NS) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters
(ADCs) using passive loop filters have drawn the increasing attentions owing to their …

A fully dynamic low-power wideband time-interleaved noise-shaping SAR ADC

H Zhuang, J Liu, H Tang, X Peng… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a fully dynamic, low-power, wideband, time-interleaved (TI), noise-
shaping (NS) successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) …

An 84-dB-SNDR Low-OSR Fourth-Order Noise-Shaping SAR With an FIA-Assisted EF-CRFF Structure and Noise-Mitigated Push-Pull Buffer-in-Loop Technique

T Xie, TH Wang, Z Liu, S Li - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To design a low-oversampled high-resolution noise-shaping successive approximation
register (NS-SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), two main bottlenecks need to be …

A 20 MHz bandwidth 79 dB SNDR SAR-assisted noise-shaping pipeline ADC with gain and offset calibrations

Y Zhang, J Zhang, S Liu, R Ding, Y Zhu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a second-order successive approximation register (SAR)-assisted
noise-shaping (NS) pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with optimized noise transfer …

A Time-Interleaved 2nd-Order ΔΣ Modulator Achieving 5-MHz Bandwidth and 86.1-dB SNDR Using Digital Feed-Forward Extrapolation

D Jiang, L Qi, SW Sin, F Maloberti… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a time-interleaved (TI) 2nd-order discrete-time (DT) delta-sigma
modulator (DSM). We propose a digital feed-forward extrapolation by first digitizing the …

SAR-Assisted Energy-Efficient Hybrid ADCs

KE Lozada, DJ Chang, DR Oh… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The distinct advantages of low power consumption and hardware compactness make SAR
ADCs especially appealing in scaled CMOS technologies, garnering significant attention …