A 510nW 12-bit 200kS/s SAR-assisted SAR ADC using a re-switching technique

This paper presents a 510nW 12-bit 200kS/s SAR-assisted SAR ADC in 40nm CMOS at 0.7V supply. A re-switching technique is proposed to suppress DNL spikes so that the size of DAC capacitor array can be minimized to reduce switching energy. A set of 2-way charge pump is used to decrease settling time constant and to increase sampling linearity. The prototype ADC achieves the DNL/INL performance of 0.5/0.79 LSB. Its SNDR and SFDR at Nyquist rate are 69.1dB and 81.72dB, respectively. It results in an FoMs of 182dB and an FoM_w of 1.1fJ/c.-s.