Linearity Improvement of VCO-Based ADC via Complementary Bias Voltage Control for IoT Devices
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- Srikram Pitchayapatchaya
- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
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- Ikebe Masayuki
- Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics, Hokkaido Univerisity
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- Motomura Masato
- Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Abstract
<p>Ring-VCO (Voltage controlled oscillator)-based ADCs are suitable for the data acquisition in embedded sensors which are at the core of AI enabled IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Fundamentally, the ring-VCO can generate digital code by counting frequency from its voltage-controlled oscillation. However, the ring-VCO has some issues related to non-linearity and power dissipation due to the voltage-to-frequency (V-to-F) tuning characteristics. Particularly, for low power operation with low voltage supply, the linearity further degrades. This paper presents a complementary bias voltage control approach to attain a linear V-to-F characteristics with low-power dissipation. The novel voltage-to-current (V-to-I) conversion provides the linear bias current source and sink matching for current-starved inverter-based delay elements. Furthermore, the proposed circuit can be extended to optimize nonlinearity error by selecting an optimal transistor size. Simulation results with a 0.5V power supply circuit designed in TSMC 180nm CMOS technology shows that maximum nonlinearity error is below 0.24% for 4-stage and below 0.49% for 8-stage ring-VCO.</p>
Journal
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- Journal of Signal Processing
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Journal of Signal Processing 26 (1), 1-12, 2022-01-01
Research Institute of Signal Processing, Japan
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390853567321270784
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- NII Article ID
- 130008138919
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- DOI
- 10.2299/jsp.26.1
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- ISSN
- 18801013
- 13426230
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed