Design and Implementation of High Speed and Low Power 12-bit SAR ADC using 22nm FinFET

Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) architecture comprises of sub modules such as comparator, Digital to Analog Converter and SAR logic. Each of these modules imposes challenges as the signal makes transition from analog to digital and vice-versa. Design strategies for optimum design of circuits considering 22nm FinFET technology meeting area, timing, power requirements and ADC metrics is presented in this work. Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) based comparator, 12-bit two stage segmented resistive string DAC architecture and low power SAR logic is designed and integrated to form the ADC architecture with maximum sampling rate of 1 GS/s. Circuit schematic is captured in Cadence environment with optimum geometrical parameters and performance metrics of the proposed ADC is evaluated in MATLAB environment. Differential Non Linearity and Integral Non Linearity metrics for the 12-bit ADC is limited to +1.15/-1 LSB and +1.22/-0.69 LSB respectively. ENOB of 10.1663 with SNR of 62.9613 dB is achieved for the designed ADC measured for conversion of input signal of 100 MHz with 20dB noise. ADC with sampling frequency upto 1 GSps is designed in this work with low power dissipation less than 10 mW.

Integrated Photonics Based High Speed Arbitrary Waveform Generation

High speed arbitrary waveform generator enabled by photonic digital to analog converter where the bandwidth limitation arising due to interconnect and device parasitics in its electronic counterparts is circumvented. Leveraging the silicon photonic integration technology for this purpose provides a potential high resolution, high bandwidth, and energy efficient solution for signal transmitters.

Integrated Photonics Based High Speed Arbitrary Waveform Generation

High speed arbitrary waveform generator enabled by photonic digital to analog converter where the bandwidth limitation arising due to interconnect and device parasitics in its electronic counterparts is circumvented. Leveraging the silicon photonic integration technology for this purpose provides a potential high resolution, high bandwidth, and energy efficient solution for signal transmitters.

Optical digital-to-analog converter for N-digit logic-based processing circuits

The possibility of synthesis of ultra-fast universal optical digital-to-analog converter (DAC) providing conversion of digital information into analog information in giga- and terahertz ranges, including in digital systems based on N-digit logic, is considered. The functional diagram of the optical DAC containing technologically well-developed optical elements is given, the principle of operation is described in detail. The possibility of implementing this DAC with the speed potentially possible for optical data processing circuits is shown.