ADC thermal noise calculation

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Hi

I need advices on noise calculation of ADC.

I'm designing a single-slope serial ADC. A two-stage comparator compares Vin with Vramp and drives an NAND-gate. The output of the NAND gate then activates a counter. The counter operates at much higher frequency than the -3dB freq of the compartor.

I want to calculate the thermal noise of this ADC. Does small-signal concept still apply or a transient noise analysis should be used in this case?

If small-signal concept can be used, what range of frequency should i need to integrate to compute the input-reffered noise? My simulator showed that the input-reffered noise increased forever whenever i widened the integration range.

Thankyou.
 

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