Nyquist Rate ADCs Dr Hossein Shamsi ECE Dept Slides: 31 Download presentation Nyquist Rate ADCs Dr. Hossein Shamsi ECE Dept, K. N. Toosi University of Technology 0 /30 Content v v v v v Sample & Hold Circuits Voltage Comparators Dual-Slope ADC Flash ADC SAR ADC Cyclic ADC Two-Step ADC Pipelined ADC Time Interleaved ADC 1 /30 Ideal Voltage Comparator 2 /30 Preview - Flash ADC 3 /30 Design Considerations 4 /30 Gain Requirements 5 /30 How to Implement High Gain? 6 /30 How about Using an Op. Amp or OTA? 7 /30 Cascade of Open-Loop Amplifiers 8 /30 Step Response (1) 9 /30 Step Response (2) 10 /30 Delay versus Number of Stages 11 /30 Optimum Number of Stages 12 /30 Optimum Gain per Stage 13 /30 Cascade of "Integrators" (1) 14 /30 Cascade of "Integrators" (2) 15 /30 Latched Comparator (2) 16 /30 Comparison 17 /30 Latch "Gain” 18 /30 Metastability (1) 20 /30 Metastability (2) 21 /30 Metastability (3) 22 /30 CMOS comparators 23 /30 Input Referred Offset 24 /30 Amplifier Offset Cancellation (1) 25 /30 Amplifier Offset Cancellation (2) 26 /30 Output Series Cancellation 27 /30 Input Series Cancellation 28 /30 Overdrive Recovery 29 /30 Comparator Example 30 /30