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An Improved kT/C noise cancellation Tech-nique with Presampling for SAR ADCs
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  • Yuanfan Gu,
  • Kai peng Wang,
  • Tiange Yi,
  • Xiaoguo Chen,
  • Shiheng Yang,
  • Jiaxin Liu
Yuanfan Gu
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Kai peng Wang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Tiange Yi
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Xiaoguo Chen
Tsinghua University
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Shiheng Yang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Jiaxin Liu
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Corresponding Author:liujiaxin@uestc.edu.cn

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Abstract

The kT/C cancellation technique can effectively reduce the DAC size for SAR ADCs and thus relax the burden for input drivers and ref-erence buffers. However, the prior kT/C cancellation technique suffers from a hard trade-off between the noise, amplifier bandwidth and linearity. In this work, an improved kT/C noise cancellation technique is proposed to break the trade-off. It uses presampling to hold the input signal unchanged during the noise cancelling phase, leading to sig-nificantly relaxed requirements on the bandwidth and linearity of the amplifier. The proposed technique is verified in a 14-bit 200MS/s SAR ADC with the DAC size of 128 fF. Simulation results show that this work achieves 75.6 dB SNDR and consumes 1.56 mW power.
Submitted to Electronics Letters
10 Jun 2024Reviewer(s) Assigned
26 Jun 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
26 Jun 2024Editorial Decision: Revise Minor
08 Jul 2024Submission Checks Completed
08 Jul 2024Assigned to Editor
13 Jul 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
14 Jul 2024Editorial Decision: Accept