Data Converters

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Data Converters

by

FRANCO MALOBERTI Pavia University, Italy

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 0-387-32485-2 (HB) ISBN-13 978-0-387-32485-2(HB) ISBN-10 0-387-32486-0 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-0-387-32486-9 (e-book)

Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

Printed on acid-free paper

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To Pina, Ame´lie, and Matteo

Contents

Dedication Preface

v xiii

1. BACKGROUND ELEMENTS

1

1.1

The Ideal Data Converter

1

1.2

Sampling 1.2.1 Undersampling 1.2.2 Sampling-time Jitter

2 10 12

1.3

Amplitude Quantization 1.3.1 Quantization Noise 1.3.2 Properties of the Quantization Noise

15 17 18

1.4

kT/C Noise

22

1.5

Discrete and Fast Fourier Transforms 1.5.1 Windowing

25 26

1.6

Coding Schemes

32

1.7

The D/A Converter 1.7.1 Ideal Reconstruction 1.7.2 Real Reconstruction

33 34 34

1.8

The Z-Transform

38

References

46

2. DATA CONVERTERS SPECIFICATIONS

47

2.1

Type of Converter

47

2.2

Conditions of Operation

48

2.3

Converter Specifications 2.3.1 General Features

50 50 vii

viii

Contents

2.4 Static Specifications 2.5 Dynamic Specifications 2.6 Digital and Switching Specifications References

51 60 72 76

3. NYQUIST-RATE D/A CONVERTERS 3.1 Introduction 3.1.1 DAC Applications 3.1.2 Voltage and Current References 3.2 Types of Converters 3.3 Resistor based Architectures 3.3.1 Resistive Divider 3.3.2 X-Y Selection 3.3.3 Settling of the Output Voltage 3.3.4 Segmented Architectures 3.3.5 Effect of the Mismatch 3.3.6 Trimming and Calibration 3.3.7 Digital Potentiometer 3.3.8 R–2R Resistor Ladder DAC 3.3.9 Deglitching 3.4 Capacitor Based Architectures 3.4.1 Capacitive Divider DAC 3.4.2 Capacitive MDAC 3.4.3 "Flip Around" MDAC 3.4.4 Hybrid Capacitive-Resistive DACs 3.5 Current Source based Architectures 3.5.1 Basic Operation 3.5.2 Unity Current Generator 3.5.3 Random Mismatch with Unary Selection 3.5.4 Current Sources Selection 3.5.5 Current Switching and Segmentation 3.5.6 Switching of Current Sources 3.6 Other Architectures References

77 77 79 80 81 82 83 85 86 89 91 94 97 97 106 107 107 110 112 113 114 114 118 121 122 124 129 131 139

4. NYQUIST RATE A/D CONVERTERS 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Timing Accuracy

141 141 143

Contents

4.2.1 Metastability error 4.3 Full-Flash Converters 4.3.1 Reference Voltages 4.3.2 Offset of Comparators 4.3.3 Offset Auto-zeroing 4.3.4 Practical Limits 4.4 Sub-Ranging and Two-Step Converters 4.4.1 Accuracy Requirements 4.4.2 Two-step Converter as a Non-linear Process 4.5 Folding and Interpolation 4.5.1 Double Folding 4.5.2 Interpolation 4.5.3