A 10GS/s Single-Core 8-bit ADC with an ENOB above 7.0 up to 4.2GHz

Conference: PRIME 2012 - 8th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics & Electronics
06/12/2012 - 06/15/2012 at Aachen, Germany

Proceedings: PRIME 2012

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Landolt, Oliver; Wiedmann, Frank; Dümler, Ulrich (Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, Germany)
Sundermeyer, Jan (Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen, Erlangen, Germany)

Abstract:
An 8b folding and interpolating ADC designed in a 180 GHz SiGe BiCMOS process operates at 10 GS/s without resorting to interleaving. It achieves an ENOB of 7.44 at 40 kHz and 6.95 at 4.995 GHz for a power dissipation of 9.1W, which corresponds to an energy per conversion step of 7.4pJ. Data output occurs in real time over ten 10 Gb/s serial lanes using a proprietary protocol.