edabrduser
Junior Member level 2
For a 10-bit SAR ADC with binary-weighted Capacitive DAC, what should be a good unit-size? Note that the process can only support Poly-Poly caps so bottom plate parasitics are going to quite high, I've read somewhere that they can be as high as 30%.
I am looking for 9+ ENOB. Die area is not a big concern, even speed is under 5 KSPS. Was thinking of simply using a single slope ADC but for 10-bit, the clock will be around 5MHz, maybe too noisy for other sensitive very low noise circuits on the die. Also thought of a Sigma-Delta(first order) but base-band extends to DC and I haven't implemented one, especially with dithering before). Any suggestions? I am open to new architectures within reasonable power and mostly low noise to other circuits that detect Sub-uV range signals.
I am looking for 9+ ENOB. Die area is not a big concern, even speed is under 5 KSPS. Was thinking of simply using a single slope ADC but for 10-bit, the clock will be around 5MHz, maybe too noisy for other sensitive very low noise circuits on the die. Also thought of a Sigma-Delta(first order) but base-band extends to DC and I haven't implemented one, especially with dithering before). Any suggestions? I am open to new architectures within reasonable power and mostly low noise to other circuits that detect Sub-uV range signals.