Digital background calibration of higher order nonlinearities in Pipelined ADCs

A Meruva, B Jalali - 2007 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Meruva, B Jalali
2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2007ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a modified digital background calibration technique to compensate for
higher order nonlinearities in a Pipelined ADC. The proposed technique uses multiple
dithers in a correlation-based background calibration scheme to estimate and compensate
higher order nonlinearities. Benefits of this new method in terms of convergence rate and
digital complexity over previous work are discussed. Another significant advantage of this
scheme is that the convergence of the estimated parameters does not depend on the …
This paper presents a modified digital background calibration technique to compensate for higher order nonlinearities in a Pipelined ADC. The proposed technique uses multiple dithers in a correlation-based background calibration scheme to estimate and compensate higher order nonlinearities. Benefits of this new method in terms of convergence rate and digital complexity over previous work are discussed. Another significant advantage of this scheme is that the convergence of the estimated parameters does not depend on the statistics of the input signal. That makes the calibration effective for any input signal. The proposed technique is implemented in a 12-bit pipelined ADC using the same architecture as in [1] for comparison. After calibration, the simulation shows signal to noise ratio of 72 dB and converges after 2 × 108 samples.
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