{"title":"A Histogram-Based Calibration Algorithm of Capacitor Mismatch for SAR ADCs","authors":"Hui Hu;Bingbing Yao;Yi Shan;Lei Qiu","doi":"10.1109/TVLSI.2024.3481993","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The conversion accuracy of successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is mainly affected by the capacitor mismatch. In this brief, a histogram-based calibration technique is proposed, which does not require any additional analog circuitry. In this work, the method of partial fitting is used to detect irregular code densities, and construct a cost function to update the weight recursively. The prototype of the calibration is verified with a 12-bit SAR ADC manufactured in 28-nm standard CMOS process. At the sampling rate 50 MS/s, the measurement results indicate that the maximum spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) can be improved from 77.26 to 88.26 dB, using 10.6 fJ/conversion-step, including reference voltage buffer, with a low-frequency input signal.","PeriodicalId":13425,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems","volume":"33 3","pages":"872-876"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10737885/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The conversion accuracy of successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is mainly affected by the capacitor mismatch. In this brief, a histogram-based calibration technique is proposed, which does not require any additional analog circuitry. In this work, the method of partial fitting is used to detect irregular code densities, and construct a cost function to update the weight recursively. The prototype of the calibration is verified with a 12-bit SAR ADC manufactured in 28-nm standard CMOS process. At the sampling rate 50 MS/s, the measurement results indicate that the maximum spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) can be improved from 77.26 to 88.26 dB, using 10.6 fJ/conversion-step, including reference voltage buffer, with a low-frequency input signal.
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