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 Title: Code-error calibration techniques for two-step flash analog-to-digital converters Author(s): Lee, Seung-Hoon Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Song, Bang-Sup Department / Program: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Discipline: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Degree: Ph.D. Genre: Dissertation Subject(s): Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Abstract: Flash-type analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have been extensively used for high-speed applications such as high-performance TVs, image recognition, radar, and medical instrumentation. However, the linearity of these state-of-the-art flash-type ADCs has been limited to 10 bits by ratio mismatch of passive components. Although techniques such as laser-trimming, self-calibration and error-averaging have been developed to achieve high matching accuracy of components, they are not readily applied to flash-type ADCs.This thesis proposes a direct, digital code-error, calibration technique to improve the linearity of two-step flash ADCs. When implemented in MOS technologies, this technique eliminates other errors resulting from MOS switch feedthrough, op amp offsets, and interstage gain errors. Nonlinearities of ADCs are statistically simulated considering component mismatch and other nonideal factors. A test chip has been verified by ADICE and ISPLICE3 and implemented using a 2 $\mu$m N-well CMOS technology from Analog Devices, Inc. Experimental results of the prototype show that the proposed calibration technique reduces total harmonic distortion from $-$64 dB to $-$77 dB and improves signal-to-noise ratio from 61 dB to 67 dB after calibration. Issue Date: 1991 Type: Text Language: English URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23592 Rights Information: Copyright 1991 Lee, Seung-Hoon Date Available in IDEALS: 2011-05-07 Identifier in Online Catalog: AAI9136650 OCLC Identifier: (UMI)AAI9136650
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