High-speed links require fast, moderate resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with low power to maximize efficiency. Hybrid voltage and time (V+T) ADCs can combine the speed benefits of time-domain conversion with the reliability of conventional voltage-domain ADCs. This letter demonstrates 1) how the V+T architecture can simplify time interleaving implementation and 2) highlights two methods for improving V+T sub-ADC robustness: a) a voltage-to-time converter (VTC) with common-mode input voltage tracking and b) a merged time-to-voltage and flash time-to-digital converter. This is demonstrated in a 0.103-mm2 22-nm CMOS prototype that consumes 76 mW and gives 32.3-dB SNDR with a Nyquist input at 40 GS/s, for 57-fJ/step FoMw.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2024.3426336
Yahia Ibrahim;Ali Niknejad
This letter introduces a W-Band sequential power amplifier (PA) (Lehmann and Knoechel, 2008) with a novel output network designed to minimize passive and combiner losses, while reducing the overall footprint compared to conventional sequential and Doherty PAs (Doherty, 1936). An isolated output combiner sums two PAs operating in two different modes: 1) the main amplifier operates in class AB and 2) the auxiliary amplifier operates in class C. The measured PA achieves a saturated output power $(mathbf {P_{mathrm { sat}}})$