3.5-bit Stage of the CMOS Pipeline ADC

A 3.5-bit stage of the CMOS pipelined ADC is proposed. In this report, the main part of 3.5-bit stage ADC is introduced. How the MDAC, comparator and encoder worked and designed are shown in details. Besides, an OTA which is used in fully differential pipelined ADC was described. Using gain-boost architecture with differential amplifier, this OTA achieve high-gain and high-speed. This design was using CMOS 0.18um process and simulation in Cadence. The result of the simulation shows that the OTA has a gain up to 80dB, the unity gain bandwidth of about 1.138GHz with 2pF load.

• Gao Wei
• Xu Minglu
• Xu Yan
• Zhang Xiaotong
• Wang Xinghua

• pipelined ADC
• MDAC
• operational amplifier.

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