A 12-Bit high-speed ADC based on GeSi BiCMOS process

Abstract

In this paper, a 7 stage switched capacitor pipelined ADC is described. This ADC is designed to achieve 12-bit resolution at the speed up to 125MSPS, which uses a fully differential switched capacitor pipelined architecture. This ADC includes an input broadband buffer, which isolates the ADC from external driver circuit, a high performance sample-and-hold amplifier (SHA) front end, and 7 pipelined sub-ADC stages to achieve 12-bit accuracy. A double poly triple metal 0.35µm GeSi BiCMOS process with 5V analog power supply is used in the design. This ADC achieves an SNR of 66dB and an SFDR of 80dB for sampling analog input frequencies up to 50MHz.