A 4th-order sturdy MASH 2-0 noise shaping SAR ADC with an enhanced
residue gain-error-shaping technique
Abstract
The multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) ΣΔ ADC has a good potential to
achieve high-order noise shaping (NS) and high resolution. However, it
suffers from the quantization noise leakage issue caused by the mismatch
between the analog NS loop filter and the digital cancellation filter,
which greatly degrades the ADC performance. The sturdy MASH structure
can solve the noise leakage issue, but it cannot be directly used for NS
SAR ADCs due to the structural limitations. In this paper, we propose a
sturdy MASH 2-0 NS SAR to solve the noise leakage issue. The 4th-order
NS is achieved by only using a 2-0 topology, which is hardware
efficient. Instead of eliminating the first-stage quantization error,
the proposed sturdy MASH 2-0 NS SAR shapes the quantization error,
achieving better robustness to PVT variables. Furthermore, owing to the
enhanced residue gain-error-shaping (GES) technique and the first-stage
2nd-order NS capability, the impairments of the residue amplifier,
including the gain error, noise, and settling inaccuracy, are 4th-order
shaped. Our proposed NS SAR ADC with the enhanced GES technique is
implemented in a 28 nm CMOS process, which achieves a SNDR of 84.8 dB
and a SFDR of 99.2 dB.