wjaachen
Newbie level 4
low-voltage adc
Hello everybody,
I am a PhD student from Germany. I am going to design a low power low voltage integrated ADC for the application of temperature measurement. I learned basic knowledge of ADC in the university, but I have not designed it before. So I have a lot of questions:
1. How should I begin with this design? Is there any good paper to read?
2. Does low voltage mean the same thing as low power for ADC?
3. There are many structures of ADC, such like flash ADC, SAR ADC, pipeline ADC, etc. Which one ist adapted for the low power ADC?
4. Is SNR so important that I must calculate it for the ADC? Or can I just implement one of the ADCs in transistor level in cadence and simulate and test it, whether this ADC good or not?
Thank You very much for Your help!
Hello everybody,
I am a PhD student from Germany. I am going to design a low power low voltage integrated ADC for the application of temperature measurement. I learned basic knowledge of ADC in the university, but I have not designed it before. So I have a lot of questions:
1. How should I begin with this design? Is there any good paper to read?
2. Does low voltage mean the same thing as low power for ADC?
3. There are many structures of ADC, such like flash ADC, SAR ADC, pipeline ADC, etc. Which one ist adapted for the low power ADC?
4. Is SNR so important that I must calculate it for the ADC? Or can I just implement one of the ADCs in transistor level in cadence and simulate and test it, whether this ADC good or not?
Thank You very much for Your help!