Calibration of Time-Skew Error in a M-Channel Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converter

Offset mismatch, gain mismatch, and time-skew error between time-interleaved channels limit the performance of time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TIADC). This paper focused on the time-skew error. A new technique for calibrating time-skew error in M-channels TIADC is described, and simulation results are also presented.

• Yu-Sheng Lee
• Qi An

• Calibration
• time-skew error
• time-interleavedanalog-to-digital converters.

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