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

    Creator:
    Ahn, Gil Cho
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    system on a chip. 2 0.8 0.4 2003 2005 2007 2011 2015 VDD [V] Year 0.6 1.0 0.2 L [nm] 80 40

  • Enhanced-accuracy oversampled data converters

    Creator:
    Ceballos, Jose Luis
    Abstract:
    Digital-to-analog converters (DACs) suffer from static and dynamic nonlinearity problems, which degrade their accuracy and performance. Mismatch errors in the analog components restrict the maximum achievable linearity. This thesis presents various techniques for correcting these errors. It describes a correction process for the nonlinear behavior of DACs, on three different...
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    Page 3.20 Length (L), Width (W) and Area (scaled by 10e4) for the typical parameters of a 0.5

  • Low-power design techniques for low-voltage analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Kim, Min Gyu
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    The demand for portable electronic systems and the continued down-scaling of device dimensions resulted in rapid improvement in the performance of integrated systems. Several low-voltage design techniques have been proposed to operate analog circuits with sub-1V supply. However, these techniques require higher power consumption to achieve large dynamic range while...
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    Dissertation
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    FoldingR E S O L U T IO N [b it ] Figure 1.1: Conversion speeds and bit resolution plot for ADCs

  • Low noise clocking for high speed serial links

    Creator:
    Brownlee, Merrick
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    As the functionality of digital chips continues to increase dramatically, chip- to-chip communication bandwidths must scale accordingly to avoid constraining the overall system performance. Therefore, high speed transceiver design has be- come an important research topic. In particular, the performance of the circuits that are responsible for timing accuracy are...
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    , the loop transfer function, L(s) is found to be IpKvoo 1 + slw, L(s) = 2R-NC s2 where I. is the

  • Design techniques for clocking high performance signaling systems

    Creator:
    Hanumolu, Pavan Kumar
    Abstract:
    Scaling of CMOS technology has progressed relentlessly for the past several decades. In order for this unprecedented scaling to benefit the performance of large digital systems, the communication bandwidth between integrated circuits (ICs) must scale accordingly. However, interconnect technology does not scale as aggressively, making communication between chips the major...
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    Dissertation

  • Design techniques for PVT tolerant phase-locked loops

    Creator:
    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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    Year 1.0 10 100 2006 2009 2012 2015 2018 Year G at e le n g th ( n m ) L o ca l C lo ck

  • Broadband modeling of on-chip transformers for silicon RFICs

    Creator:
    Rapolu, Kavitha
    Abstract:
    Magnetically coupled passive transformers are increasingly integrated on-chip for various analog and radio frequency (RF) applications including direct current (DC) isolation, impedance transformation/matching, and conversion between single-ended and differential signals. A primary motivation for the on-chip integration of transformers is the overall size reduction and reduced cost. However, the performance...
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    Masters Thesis
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    to the resistivity of the windings and is given as R = ρL wt (2.2) where R is the resistance of

  • Correlated level shifting as a power-saving method to reduce the effects of finite DC gain and signal swing in opamps

    Creator:
    Gregoire, B. Robert
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    This thesis presents methods to reduce the effects of finite opamp DC gain, output voltage swing limitations in opamps, and component mismatches. The primary contribution of this thesis is a new switched-capacitor method named correlated level shifting (CLS). CLS enables true rail-to-rail operation by storing an estimate of the desired...
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    amplification of the signal must be at least as accurate as the resolution to be achieved. L og ic

  • Low power design techniques for high speed pipelined ADCs

    Creator:
    Lingam, Naga Sasidhar
    Abstract:
    Real world is analog but the processing of signals can best be done in digital domain. So the need for Analog to Digital Converters(ADCs) is ever rising as more and more applications set in. With the advent of mobile technology, power in electronic equipment is being driven down to get...
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    Dissertation

  • A comparative study between sinusoidal and squarewave clocking for alleviating the jitter limitation in multi-gigaHertz ADCs

    Creator:
    Kesharwani, Divya
    Abstract:
    Various applications like wireless UWB communication, fast data acquisition systems and digital storage oscilloscopes needs ADCs with instantaneous input signal bandwidth from 0.1-40 GigaHertz range with 6-10 bits of resolution -- a challenging task and an impressive goal to achieve. Flash ADCs have been conventionally employed to achieve these goals...
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    Masters Thesis
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    form, has an inductor (L) and a capacitor (C) in parallel with a mechanism that generates negative