Abstract
The kT/C cancellation technique can effectively reduce the DAC size for
SAR ADCs and thus relax the burden for input drivers and ref-erence
buffers. However, the prior kT/C cancellation technique suffers from a
hard trade-off between the noise, amplifier bandwidth and linearity. In
this work, an improved kT/C noise cancellation technique is proposed to
break the trade-off. It uses presampling to hold the input signal
unchanged during the noise cancelling phase, leading to sig-nificantly
relaxed requirements on the bandwidth and linearity of the amplifier.
The proposed technique is verified in a 14-bit 200MS/s SAR ADC with the
DAC size of 128 fF. Simulation results show that this work achieves 75.6
dB SNDR and consumes 1.56 mW power.