A single-channel, 600-MS/s, 12-b, ringamp-based pipelined ADC in 28-nm CMOS

J Lagos, B Hershberg, E Martens… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Achieving high linearity and bandwidth with good power efficiency makes the design of
ADCs in deep nanoscale CMOS processes very challenging, as the constraints of low …

A 75.3-dB SNDR 24-MS/s ring amplifier-based pipelined ADC using averaging correlated level shifting and reference swapping for reducing errors from finite opamp …

TC Hung, TH Kuo - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes averaging correlated level shifting (ACLS) and reference swapping
(RS) techniques for simultaneously reducing errors from the finite opamp gain and capacitor …

A time-interleaved SAR assisted pipeline ADC with a bias-enhanced ring amplifier

Y Chen, J Wang, H Hu, F Ye… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a time-interleaved SAR assisted pipeline ADC with an inter-stage ring
amplifier as an energy efficient structure. Ring amplifiers, an alternative to operational …

Process invariant biasing of ring amplifiers using deadzone regulation circuit

PK Venkatachala, S Leuenberger… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, process invariant biasing is proposed for robust operation of ring amplifiers.
The ring amplifier is an efficient solution for high accuracy amplification in sub-micron CMOS …

Effective gain analysis and statistic based calibration for ring amplifier with robustness to pvt variation

J Lan, Y Chen, X Shen, Z Ni, Y Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief focuses on the robustness of the ring amplifier (RA), an alternative to the
operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) in the deep nanoscale CMOS process. The …

Passive compensation for improved settling and large signal stabilization of ring amplifiers

PK Venkatachala, S Leuenberger… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, passive compensation techniques are proposed: to improve the settling
performance of a ring amplifier and to minimize the power consumption of ring amplifiers in …

Cascoded ring amplifiers for high speed and high accuracy settling

CY Lee, PK Venkatachala, A ElShater… - … on Circuits and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method of biasing high gain ring amplifiers with cascoded output
stages while retaining the high slew capability of the ring amplifier. The proposed method …

Design of a ring-amplifier robust against PVT variations in deep-nanoscale FinFET CMOS

J Xavier, P Barquinha, J Goes - 2021 XXXVI Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the design and the electrical simulation results, at device level, of a
proposed ring-amplifier (RINGAMP) for industrial applications. The proposed topology has …

An empirical study of the settling performance of ring amplifiers for pipelined ADCs

S Leuenberger, PK Venkatachala… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a design example of how ring amplifier settling differs from a traditional
operational amplifier. Ringamps posses dynamic bandwidth characteristics when amplifying …

High-performance Ring Amplifier based Analog-to-Digital Converters

H Hu - 2022 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Ring Amplifier serves as a great candidate both for precision amplification and fast
integration in the discrete time system. It can be utilized in high-performance analog-to …