A 0.16mm2 12b 30MS/s 0.18μm CMOS SAR ADC based on low-power composite switching

This work proposes a 12b 30MS/s 0.18μm SAR ADC based on a low-power composite switching technique to reduce the required number of capacitors and switching energy. The proposed composite switching employs VCM-based switching and monotonic switching sequences while minimizing the switching power consumption of a DAC and the dynamic offset to constrain a linearity of the SAR ADC. A split capacitor topology implements the VCM-based switching scheme effectively without extra switches in the DAC and the SAR logic. Moreover, the proposed C-R hybrid DAC architecture minimizes the DAC area by reducing the total number of unit capacitors in the DAC up to 32. The prototype ADC in a 0.18μm CMOS technology occupies an active die area of 0.16mm
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and consumes 1.93mW at a 1.8 V supply voltage without on-chip I/V references.