A 47.5MHz BW 4.7mW 67dB SNDR Ringamp Based Discrete-Time Delta Sigma ADC
 
A 47.5MHz BW 4.7mW 67dB SNDR Ringamp Based Discrete-Time Delta Sigma ADC 
 
Lucas Santana, Lucas Santana, Ewout Martens, Ewout Martens, Jorge Luis Lagos Benites, Jorge Luis Lagos Benites, Benjamin Hershberg, Benjamin Hershberg, Piet Wambacq, Piet Wambacq, Jan Craninckx, Jan Craninckx
 
Abstract 

This work presents a discrete-time (DT) delta sigma modulator (DSM) ADC that uses ring amplifiers to relax critical speed and efficiency bottlenecks. The DSM is designed as a 3 rd -order Cascade of Integrator with Feed Forward (CIFF) with a 4-bit quantizer, and it achieves a peak SNDR of 67dB and DR of 70.0dB with 47.5MHz bandwidth when clocked at 950MHz. This is the highest bandwidth reported to-date among single-channel DT DSM ADCs and demonstrates a viable alternative to continuous-time (CT) DSM ADCs for wideband oversampling applications. With a power consumption of 4.7mW from a 1V supply, FOMs and FOMw are 167.0dB and 27.0fJ/c.s. respectively, demonstrating efficient DT delta-sigma conversion with high bandwidth.