A high speed column-parallel CDS/ADC circuit with nonlinearity compensation is proposed in this paper.The correlated double sampling (CDS) and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) functions are integrated in a threephase...A high speed column-parallel CDS/ADC circuit with nonlinearity compensation is proposed in this paper.The correlated double sampling (CDS) and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) functions are integrated in a threephase column-parallel circuit based on two floating gate inverters and switched-capacitor network.The conversion rate of traditional single-slope ADC is speeded up by dividing quantization to coarse step and fine step.A storage capacitor is used to store the result of coarse step and locate the section of ramp signal of fine step,which can reduce the clock step from 2 n to 2 (n/2+1).The floating gate inverters are implemented to reduce the power consumption.Its induced nonlinear offset is cancelled by introducing a compensation module to the input of inverter,which can equalize the coupling path in three phases of the proposed circuit.This circuit is designed and simulated for CMOS image sensor with 640×480 pixel array using Chartered 0.18μm process.Simulation results indicate that the resolution can reach 10-bit and the maximum frame rate can reach 200 frames/s with a main clock of 10MHz.The power consumption of this circuit is less than 36.5μW with a 3.3V power supply.The proposed CDS/ADC circuit is suitable for high resolution and high speed image sensors.展开更多
An anti-aliasing filter for ADCs using a combination of active RC and analog FIR filters is presented in this letter. The first order active RC filter is set at 100kHz to minimize the die size and variations of linear...An anti-aliasing filter for ADCs using a combination of active RC and analog FIR filters is presented in this letter. The first order active RC filter is set at 100kHz to minimize the die size and variations of linear phase and gain in 0-4kHz passband. The 2-tap FIR filter provides more than -53dB attenuation at 2MHz +4kHz frequency range. The proposed filter achieved more than -76dB attenuation at sampling frequency with +0.01 phase linearity and +0.02dB gain variation within 0-4kHz bandwidth. The active die area of the fully differential filter is 0.17mm2 in 0.5um CMOS technology. The experimental and simulation results have been obtained and the feasibility of the proposed method is shown.展开更多
The signal to noise ratio （SNR） of conventional sigma delta analog to digital converter （∑△ADC） reduces with input signal strength. The existing concept of adaptive quantization is applied to the design of ∑△A...The signal to noise ratio （SNR） of conventional sigma delta analog to digital converter （∑△ADC） reduces with input signal strength. The existing concept of adaptive quantization is applied to the design of ∑△ADC to improve SNR with high dynamic range. An adaptive algorithm and its circuit implementation is proposed. Because of the error due to the circuit implementation, an error self-calibration circuit is also designed. Simulation results indicate that SNR can he nearly independent of the signal strength.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60806010,No.60976030)
文摘A high speed column-parallel CDS/ADC circuit with nonlinearity compensation is proposed in this paper.The correlated double sampling (CDS) and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) functions are integrated in a threephase column-parallel circuit based on two floating gate inverters and switched-capacitor network.The conversion rate of traditional single-slope ADC is speeded up by dividing quantization to coarse step and fine step.A storage capacitor is used to store the result of coarse step and locate the section of ramp signal of fine step,which can reduce the clock step from 2 n to 2 (n/2+1).The floating gate inverters are implemented to reduce the power consumption.Its induced nonlinear offset is cancelled by introducing a compensation module to the input of inverter,which can equalize the coupling path in three phases of the proposed circuit.This circuit is designed and simulated for CMOS image sensor with 640×480 pixel array using Chartered 0.18μm process.Simulation results indicate that the resolution can reach 10-bit and the maximum frame rate can reach 200 frames/s with a main clock of 10MHz.The power consumption of this circuit is less than 36.5μW with a 3.3V power supply.The proposed CDS/ADC circuit is suitable for high resolution and high speed image sensors.
基金Foundation for University Key Teacher by the Ministry of Education of China
文摘An anti-aliasing filter for ADCs using a combination of active RC and analog FIR filters is presented in this letter. The first order active RC filter is set at 100kHz to minimize the die size and variations of linear phase and gain in 0-4kHz passband. The 2-tap FIR filter provides more than -53dB attenuation at 2MHz +4kHz frequency range. The proposed filter achieved more than -76dB attenuation at sampling frequency with +0.01 phase linearity and +0.02dB gain variation within 0-4kHz bandwidth. The active die area of the fully differential filter is 0.17mm2 in 0.5um CMOS technology. The experimental and simulation results have been obtained and the feasibility of the proposed method is shown.
文摘The signal to noise ratio （SNR） of conventional sigma delta analog to digital converter （∑△ADC） reduces with input signal strength. The existing concept of adaptive quantization is applied to the design of ∑△ADC to improve SNR with high dynamic range. An adaptive algorithm and its circuit implementation is proposed. Because of the error due to the circuit implementation, an error self-calibration circuit is also designed. Simulation results indicate that SNR can he nearly independent of the signal strength.
