TY - BOOK AU - Karim Moataz Mohamed Mahmoud Ali Megawer AU - Ahmed Nader Mohieldin , AU - Faisal Abdellattef Hussien , AU - Mohamed Mostafa Aboudina , TI - Asynchronous sar-assisted two-stage pipeline analog to digital converter using ring amplifier / PY - 2016/// CY - Cairo : PB - Karim Moataz Mohamed Mahmoud Ali Megawer , KW - Analog to Digital Converter KW - Pipeline ADC KW - SAR ADC N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Electronics and Communications; Issued also as CD N2 - In this thesis, an adaptive ring amplifier is proposed to introduce a degree of freedom in speed/stabilization design trade-off in the original ring amplifier. It also introduces an area efficient solution for the auto-zeroing stability problem that the conventional ring amplifier suffers from. The proposed adaptive ring amplifier improves the linearity by 10dB at the same operating frequency. Moreover, it achieves a 40% improvement in the operating frequency for the same linearity and settling requirements. It has a 98% area reduction compared to the conventional ring amplifier for the same stability conditions. A 12-bit 25MS/s SAR-Assisted two-stage pipeline ADC is designed and implemented in a low-cost 0.13om CMOS technology. It consists of a 6-bit first stage followed by a 7-bit second stage utilizing the proposed adaptive ring amplifier in order to meet the stringent specifications. In addition, a detect-and-skip (DAS) capacitive DAC (CDAC) switching method is used to reduce the switching energy of the first-stage CDAC. The ADC consumes 0.89mW achieving a Figure of Merit (FoM) of 13.7 fJ/conversion-step while operating from a single 1.2V supply UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -