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different processes in the noise-limited
region [Figure 6(d)]. The reason
is that the analog scaling drawback
of lowering VDD
is to a first-order
mD
nullified by the increased /gI to
achieve the same .fT
Although there are aspects omitted
in our analysis (e.g., calibration,
SAR redundancy, and asynchronous
timing; unsettled integrator
RA), the proposed " plug-and-play "
framework captures to a first-order
major fundamental, architecture,
and process parameters influencing
an ADC's efficiency. It makes a valuable
toolbox when starting a new
design or changing process nodes,
offering a great insight into different
circuit, architecture, and process capabilities.
Further, it hints at a potentially
superior ADC architecture for
both high accuracy and high speed,
Node = 28 nm BER = 1e-9 fs = 500 KHz fT ~120 GHz
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FIGURE 6: Derived architecture accuracy-speed-power limits: (a) fs = 500 kHz, (b) fs = 500 MHz, (c) fs = 1.3 GHz, and
(d) across different processes.
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PipeSAR 2 s
PipeSAR 3 s
PipeSAR 4 s
PipeSAR 5 s
the multistage (>5-stages) pipelinedSAR
hybrid. Compared with the
state-of-the-art design of Figure 1,
it follows the relative accuracy and
trends between the different architectures
with an absolute accuracy of
within an order of magnitude. This
is fair, given the generalized nature
of this framework. Finally, it greatly
motivated the design choices of the
state-of-the-art design in [18].
Node = 28 nm BER = 1e-9 fs = 500 MHz fT ~120 GHz
Ptot/fs (J)
Ptot/fs (J)
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