{"title":"A 94.3-dB SNDR 184-dB FoMs 4th-Order Noise-Shaping SAR ADC With Dynamic-Amplifier-Assisted Cascaded Integrator","authors":"Kai-Cheng Cheng;Soon-Jyh Chang;Chung-Chieh Chen;Shuo-Hong Hung","doi":"10.1109/LSSC.2025.3544649","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a fully dynamic 4th-order noise-shaping (NS) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with the proposed 4th-order cascaded integrator using dynamic-amplifier-assisted and passive integration. This ADC can achieve sharp NTF with only two dynamic amplifiers and is insensitive to process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variation. The NS-SAR ADC occupies 0.09 mm2 in a 28-nm CMOS process. With a 1-V supply voltage, it consumes <inline-formula> <tex-math>$107.38~\\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>W at 5 MS/s. The measured signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) is 94.3 dB over a 100-kHz bandwidth (BW), resulting in a Schreier figure of merit (FoM) of 184 dB and a Walden FoM of 12.6 fJ/conv.-step.","PeriodicalId":13032,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters","volume":"8 ","pages":"65-68"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10899778/","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This letter presents a fully dynamic 4th-order noise-shaping (NS) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with the proposed 4th-order cascaded integrator using dynamic-amplifier-assisted and passive integration. This ADC can achieve sharp NTF with only two dynamic amplifiers and is insensitive to process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variation. The NS-SAR ADC occupies 0.09 mm2 in a 28-nm CMOS process. With a 1-V supply voltage, it consumes $107.38~\mu $ W at 5 MS/s. The measured signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) is 94.3 dB over a 100-kHz bandwidth (BW), resulting in a Schreier figure of merit (FoM) of 184 dB and a Walden FoM of 12.6 fJ/conv.-step.