Correlated Double Sampling Assisted Capacitance to Digital Converter
Abstract
In this thesis, a correlated double sampling assisted capacitance to digital converter is designed. The principle behind Correlated double sampling, assists the signal readout front end of the Capacitance to Digital converter, to be low power consuming. The CDS is based on sampling the input twice to ensure complete preservation of input differential swing. The front-end comprises of single stage Telescopic operational amplifier that provides high gain and phase margin. The readout front-end acts as an offset and gain calibrating stage with high noise suppression. This design aims at improving energy consumption of Capacitance to digital converters in comparison with conventional architectures. The proposed 10-bit SAR ADC is an energy efficient design that has Figure of Merit (FoM) of 73.43fJ/conversion-step. It consumes total energy of 0.0752nJ from a supply of 1.1V. The circuits are designed in TSMC 65nm technology.