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AffiliationFondazione Bruno Kessler
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CountryItaly
In this paper, the design of a 6-bits successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital convertor (ADC) in 0.18 µm technology is presented. This paper proposes the new SAR based on the monotonic switching structure for single-ended input signal, in which the capacitors are just arranged at a single input node of the comparator. Therefore, the number of capacitors is decreased by half. In addition, the special split capacitor structure is merged with the monotonic switching to considerably reduce the capacitor size. Using the split capacitor method, the switching energy can be reduced by 37%, while by adding the proposed method to the split capacitor method, it will be reduced to the half value of the split capacitor method. In addition, due to the existence of smaller capacitances than the conventional split capacitor method, the settling speed and input bandwidth increase. A dynamic comparator is used to decrease the static power consumption of ADC. In addition, very low power D-FFs based on transmission logic are used in the SAR control logic part to further reduce the power consumption.