4.6 Article

A survey of voltage-controlled-oscillator-based ΔΣ ADCs

Journal

TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 472-480

Publisher

TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.26599/TST.2021.9010037

Keywords

Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO); Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC); oversampling (Delta Sigma) ADC; time-domain signal processing; VCO-based Delta Sigma ADC

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61934009, 62090042]
  2. Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology
  3. Academician Expert Open Fund of Beijing Smart-chip Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
  4. Beijing Innovation Center for Future Chips (ICFC)

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This paper reviews the first-order and high-order VCO-based Delta Sigma ADCs and introduces several techniques and architectures to mitigate the nonidealities introduced by VCO, achieving outstanding power efficiency.
The benefits of technology scaling have fueled interest in realizing time-domain oversampling (Delta Sigma) of Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs). Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCO) are increasingly used to design Delta Sigma ADCs because of their simplicity, high digitization, and low-voltage tolerance, making them a promising candidate to replace the classical Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) in Delta Sigma ADC design. This work aims to provide a summary of the fully VCO-based Delta Sigma ADCs that are highly digital and scaling-friendly. This work presents a review of first-order and high-order VCO-based Delta Sigma ADCs with several techniques and architectures to mitigate the nonidealities introduced by VCO, achieving outstanding power efficiency. The contributions and drawbacks of these techniques and architectures are also discussed.

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