A 10-b, 100-MS/s CMOS A/D converter

A new architecture for a CMOS A/D converter overcomes many of the known problems in the parallel operation of multiple pipelined stages. The input signal is sampled in one channel, and after quantization to 4 b, the residue is distributed into many channels. A prototype implemented in 1-/spl mu/m CMOS achieves 60 dB signal-to-noise plus distortion ratio (SNDR) at low conversion rates, with a resolution bandwidth of greater than 20 MHz. The SNDR drops by 3 dB at a 95 MHz conversion rate, and the bandwidth remains the same.