Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design Project
It is true that most signal processing tasks in electronic systems are done in the digital domain, where the discrete representation of signals in time and amplitude provide efficient digital signal processing, storage, error correction capabilities, and immunity to certain margin of distortion and noise. However, real world signals are analog, continuous in time and amplitude. The input signals from the real world to our senses and to electronic sensors such as voice, force, temperature are also analog. Thus, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) have a paramount importance in bridging the real world and the digital domain. The most recent applications in instrumentation, wireline and wireless telecommunication, consumer electronics demand ever-increasing resolution, bandwidth, linearity, precision and efficiency from ADCs.
Successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are frequently the architecture of choice for medium-to-high-resolution applications with moderate sampling rates. Resolution for SAR ADCs most commonly ranges from 8 to 16 bits, and they provide low power consumption as well as a small form factor. This combination of features makes these ADCs ideal for a wide variety of applications, such as portable/battery-powered instruments, pen digitizers, industrial controls, and data/signal acquisition.
In this project, you are expected to design a 6-bit SAR ADC using TSMC 65 nm process.
Note: This is a continuation project of summer PURE project.
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