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  • Design techniques for low-voltage and low-power analog-to-digital converters

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    Ahn, Gil Cho
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    With the ever-increasing demand for portable devices used in applications such as wireless communication, mobile computing, consumer electronics, etc., the scaling of the CMOS process to deep submicron dimensions becomes more important to achieve low-cost, low-power and high-performance digital systems. However, this downscaling also requires similar shrinking of the supply...
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    -digital converters. To demonstrate the proposed design techniques, a 0.6 V, 82 dB, 2-2 cascaded au- dio

  • Energy and area efficient techniques for data converters

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    Venkatram, Hariprasath
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    Data converters are ubiquitous building blocks of a signal chain. The rapid increase in communication and connectivity devices presents new avenues for pushing the state of the art analog to digital converters. Techniques for improving resolution, bandwidth, linearity and bit-error rate, while reducing the power, energy and area is the...
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    at 20 MS/s. Built in 1P4M 0.18 µm technology and operating at 1.3 V sup- ply, the ADC consumes 5.9

  • Power-efficient two-step pipelined analog-to-digital conversion

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    Lee, Ho-Young
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    Hand-held devices are among the most successful consumer electronics in modern society. Behind these successful devices, lies a key analog design technique that involves high-performance analog-to-digital conversion combined with very low power consumption. This dissertation presents two different approaches to achieving high power efficiency from a two-step pipelined architecture, which...
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    2012 Year F O M [ p J /c o n v .- s te p ] Pipelined Algorithmic Folding SAR Subranging

  • Low voltage switched capacitor circuits for lowpass and bandpass [delta sigma] converters

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    Keskin, Mustafa
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    The most accurate method for performing analog signal processing in MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) integrated circuits is through the use of switched-capacitor circuits. A switched-capacitor circuit operates as a discrete-time signal processor. These circuits have been used in a variety of applications, such as filters, gain stages, voltage-controlled oscillators, and modulators. A...
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    =2.5-kHz, V=20-mVp-p square wave, and f10k=2OO kHz. A simple macromodel that consists of a dc gain of

  • Power efficient analog-to-digital converters using both voltage and time domain information

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    Oh, Taehwan
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    As advanced wired and wireless communication systems attempt to achieve higher performance, the demand for high resolution and wide signal bandwidth in their associated ADCs is strongly increased. Recently, time-domain quantization has drawn attention from its scalability in deep submicron CMOS processes. Furthermore, there are several interesting aspects of time-domain...
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    approach. In this work, a simple V-T conversion scheme with a cheap low gain amplifier in its first stage

  • Automated analysis, design, and optimization of low noise oscillators

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    Vytyaz, Igor
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    Low noise oscillators are universally needed in digital systems for clock generation and synchronization, and in radio-frequency communication front-ends for frequency up- and down-conversion. Noise in oscillators results in timing jitter, and limits the clock frequency of digital systems. In radio-frequency communication systems, phase noise in oscillators lowers the signal-to-noise...
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    difference in absolute time. The difference ∆ts is large for small ∆γp and not periodic

  • Low power design techniques for analog-to-digital converters in submicron CMOS

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    Musah, Tawfiq
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    Advances in process technologies have led to the development of low-power high speed digital signal processing blocks that occupy small areas. These advances are critical in the development of portable electronic devices with small feature size and long battery life. However, the design of analog and mixed-signal building blocks, especially...
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    . INTRODUCTION 1.1 Motivation 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 0 0.5 1 P o w er S u p p

  • Automated synthesis of analog to digital conversion

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    Weaver, Skyler
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    This thesis describes circuit architectures and techniques that facilitate the automatic synthesis and fabrication of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Since automated synthesis already exists for digital circuits and is part of the digital circuit design flow, this work demonstrates the feasibility of ADC synthesis with little or no modification to presently...
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    − N o is e P o w e r [V 2 F S ] (b) 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8

  • A multi-bit hybrid DSM over full-scale range without feedback DEM

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    Kwon, Sunwoo, 1974-
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    Evolution of the mobile communication standards and proliferation of hand-held devices mandate stringent Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) specifications. Among various ADCs, a ∆Σ ADC is best known as a power-efficient ADC when more than 12b is required. However, a conventional discrete-time (DT) ∆Σ Modulator (∆ΣM) is inadequate for low-power wideband applications...
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    Bandwidth [MHz] P o w e r c o n s u m p ti o n [ m W ] Nyquist-rate ADC Delta-Sigma modulator Figure

  • Design techniques for PVT tolerant phase-locked loops

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    Wu, Ting
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    The continued scaling of deep-submicron CMOS technology enables low-voltage high-frequency phase-locked loops (PLLs) to be fully integrated in complex mixed-signal systems. However, fluctuations due to the manufacturing process and variations in environmental conditions, such as supply voltage and temperature, are also significantly increased. As a result, the performance of PLLs...
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    are dramatically reduced as depicted in Fig. 1.1(b). 0.3 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.5 S u p p ly V o lt