A 950 MHz Clock 47.5 MHz BW 4.7 mW 67 dB SNDR Discrete Time Delta Sigma ADC Leveraging Ring Amplification and Split-Source Comparator Based Quantizer in 28 nm CMOS Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article presents a delta sigma modulator (DSM) analog to digital (ADC) that uses ring amplifiers as integrators to relax speed and efficiency bottlenecks in discrete-time (DT) oversampled ADCs. Its multi-bit quantizer is based on split source (SS) comparators, adding flexibility and power efficiency. The complete oversampling ADC is designed as a 3rd-order cascade of integrator with feed forward (CIFF) with a 4-bit quantizer, and it ...