Switched-Capacitor Techniques for High-Accuracy Filter and ADC Design

Switched capacitor (SC) techniques are well proven to be excellent candidates for implementing critical analogue functions with high accuracy, surpassing other analogue techniques when embedded in mixed-signal CMOS VLSI. Conventional SC circuits are primarily limited in accuracy by a) capacitor matching and b) the accuracy with which a differential amplifier can squeeze charge from one capacitor to another between clock periods.

In Switched-Capacitor Techniques for High-Accuracy Filter and ADC Design , alternative SC techniques are proposed which allow the achievement of higher intrinsic analogue functional accuracy than previously possible in such application areas as analogue filter and ADC design. The design philosophy is to create the required functionality without relying on digital calibration or correction means but instead to develop methods which have reduced dependence on both component matching (especially capacitor matching) and parasitic effects (especially parasitic capacitance). However, the proposed techniques are just as amenable to further digital accuracy enhancement via calibration and/or correction as traditional methods. Two popular application areas are explored in the course of this book for exploitation of the proposed techniques, viz. SC filters and algorithmic ADCs - both cyclic and pipelined. Furthermore, efficient system level design procedures are explored in each of these two areas.

The validity of the concepts developed and analyzed in Switched-Capacitor Techniques for High-Accuracy Filter and ADC Design has been demonstrated in practice with the design of CMOS SC bandpass filters and algorithmic ADC stages. For example, a 10.7MHz radio IF selectivity filter integrated in standard CMOS, employing the proposed methods, achieves an accuracy greater than ceramic filters. Another example is an ADC with better than 12-bit intrinsic accuracy, albeit capacitors with only 9-bits matching accuracy were used in the realization. The ADC architecture is also very robust and proven in an embedded digital VLSI application in the very newest 65nm CMOS. The power consumptions and silicon areas of the solutions proposed here are lower than other known solutions from the literature.

New techniques allow the achievement of higher intrinsic functional accuracy beyond the accuracy of component matching alone Clear explanation on the practical limitations and trade-offs of designing accurate CMOS switched-capacitor circuits both at system level and at basic circuit level Real world applications requiring accurate high-Q filters (e.g. 10.7MHz radio) and accurate stage transfers in algorithmic ADCs (cyclic and pipelined) are explored in CMOS using the new techniques developed Since most of the power in switched capacitor circuits is dissipated in the amplifiers, a lot of emphasis is placed in this work on various strategies for optimal amplifier design for sampled data applications

Auteur
Professor Arthur van Roermund has (co-)authored and edited numerous books for Springer and he is well established within the Analog Circuit Design community

Contenu
Key Concepts for Accurate SC Design.- SC Amplifier Design at Black-Box Level.- Amplifier Architectures for SC Applications.- Low-Sensitivity SC BPF Concepts.- High-Accuracy d-QR SC BPF Design and Measurements.- ADC Design at Black-Box Level.- Design Criteria for Cyclic and Pipelined ADCs.- Capacitor Matching Insensitive High-Resolution Low-Power ADC Concept.- High-Accuracy ADC Design and Measurements.