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    Author(s)
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    Xizhu Peng
    Affiliation
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    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Xiaolei Ye
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Hang Liu
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Zhifei Lu
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Yao Xiao
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    East China Normal University
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    Yutao Peng
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    He Tang
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Abstract

    This paper demonstrates a new neural-network-based calibration technique for inter-channel mismatches of time-interleaved ADCs. By providing with signal value and derivative value of each channel, the network could calibrate the gain mismatch, offset mismatch, and timing mismatch of TI-ADCs. By utilizing signal feature fitting, the ground truth for network training could be obtained without an accurate reference ADC nor a precise ADC error model. Simulation results show that the proposed calibration technique can increase the SFDR of a 14-bit 4Gsps TI-ADC from 32.77 dB to 91.71 dB for single-tone signals, and suppress the maximum spur from -48.51 dBFS to -101.23 dBFS for multi-tone signals. A hardware implementation resources estimation is also given in this paper.