An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing System
With nine-axis sensing systems in 5G smartphones, mobile power consumption has become increasingly important, and ultra-low-power (ULP) sensor circuits can decrease power consumption to tens of microwatts. This paper presents an innovative successive approximation register analog-to-digital converte...
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doaj-9995eae84151438384e55030a5675dd22021-01-10T00:02:03ZengMDPI AGJournal of Low Power Electronics and Applications2079-92682021-01-01113310.3390/jlpea11010003An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing SystemChih-Hsuan Lin0Kuei-Ann Wen1Department of Electronic Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, TaiwanDepartment of Electronic Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, TaiwanWith nine-axis sensing systems in 5G smartphones, mobile power consumption has become increasingly important, and ultra-low-power (ULP) sensor circuits can decrease power consumption to tens of microwatts. This paper presents an innovative successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter, which comprises fine (three most significant bits (MSBs) plus course conversion (11 least significant bits (LSBs)) capacitive digital-to-analog converters (CDACs), ULP, four-mode reconfigurable resolution (9, 10, 11, or 12 bits), an internally generated clock, meta-detection, the switching base midpoint voltage (Vm) (SW-B-M), bit control logic, multi-phase control logic, fine (three MSBs) plus course conversion (11 LSBs) switch control logic, phase control logic, and an input signal plus negative voltage (VI + NEG) voltage generator. Then, the mechanism of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based calibration is applied. The scalable voltage technique was used, and the analog/digital voltage was <i>V<sub>analog</sub></i> (1.5 V) and <i>V<sub>digital</sub></i> (0.9 V) to meet the specifications of the nine-axis ULP sensing system. The CDACs can reconfigure four-mode resolutions, 9–12 bits, for use in nine-axis sensor applications. The corresponding dynamic signal-to-noise and distortion ratio performance was 50.78, 58.53, 62.42, and 66.51 dB. In the 12-bit mode, the power consumption of the ADC was approximately 2.7 μW, and the corresponding figure of merit (FoM) was approximately 30.5 fJ for each conversion step.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/1/3reconfigurableSAR-ADCfine (3 MSBs) plus course conversion (11 LSBs) CDACDFT-based |
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Chih-Hsuan Lin Kuei-Ann Wen An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing System Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications reconfigurable SAR-ADC fine (3 MSBs) plus course conversion (11 LSBs) CDAC DFT-based |
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An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing System |
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An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing System |
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An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing System |
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An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing System |
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An Innovative Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter for a Nine-Axis Sensing System |
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innovative successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter for a nine-axis sensing system |
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Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications |
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With nine-axis sensing systems in 5G smartphones, mobile power consumption has become increasingly important, and ultra-low-power (ULP) sensor circuits can decrease power consumption to tens of microwatts. This paper presents an innovative successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter, which comprises fine (three most significant bits (MSBs) plus course conversion (11 least significant bits (LSBs)) capacitive digital-to-analog converters (CDACs), ULP, four-mode reconfigurable resolution (9, 10, 11, or 12 bits), an internally generated clock, meta-detection, the switching base midpoint voltage (Vm) (SW-B-M), bit control logic, multi-phase control logic, fine (three MSBs) plus course conversion (11 LSBs) switch control logic, phase control logic, and an input signal plus negative voltage (VI + NEG) voltage generator. Then, the mechanism of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based calibration is applied. The scalable voltage technique was used, and the analog/digital voltage was <i>V<sub>analog</sub></i> (1.5 V) and <i>V<sub>digital</sub></i> (0.9 V) to meet the specifications of the nine-axis ULP sensing system. The CDACs can reconfigure four-mode resolutions, 9–12 bits, for use in nine-axis sensor applications. The corresponding dynamic signal-to-noise and distortion ratio performance was 50.78, 58.53, 62.42, and 66.51 dB. In the 12-bit mode, the power consumption of the ADC was approximately 2.7 μW, and the corresponding figure of merit (FoM) was approximately 30.5 fJ for each conversion step. |
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reconfigurable SAR-ADC fine (3 MSBs) plus course conversion (11 LSBs) CDAC DFT-based |
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