Abstract

This paper presents a 10-b ADC designed in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology. The ADC achieves 10-b resolution by using the cascaded folding technique in both the fine and coarse converters. Folding stages are pipelined to improve the settling time. As a result, this ADC can achieve the sampling rate up to 100MS/s. Moreover, instead of using a costly single track-and-hold circuit, a distributed track-and-hold circuit is used to reduce the chip area and the power consumption. This also allows utilizing the open-loop architecture of the folding technique, thus improving the performance of the system. The simulation results show that with a 49 MHz sine-wave input, the ADC consumes 66 mW and the effective number of bit (ENOB) is 9.28-b. Taking into account of process variations by using a Monte Carlo simulation, the DNL varies from ±0.45LSB to ±0.25LSB. The layout of the ADC occupies 1.2 mm2 die area.