Abstract
The power consumption of chips has emerged as a major concern with the
increased integration of analog circuitry. This work focuses on a
two-stage comparator based on a preamplifier with latch for successive
approximation analog-to-digital converter. In order to minimize power
loss and delay time, the charge steering approach was used in the design
of latch as well as preamplifier. The suggested comparator is simulated
in SMIC 0.18um process in comparison to the comparator without charge
steering mode. The results reveal that the average power consumption is
only around 22uW for varied input voltage at a supply voltage of 1.2V,
which is relatively lowered by approximately 30%. Meanwhile, delay time
is also reduced by about 25%.