To reduce the power consumed by the residue amplifier in pipelined analog-to-digital converter(ADC)and enhance its speed
a new topology of the open-loop residue amplifier and its gain control circuit were presented. The open-loop residue amplifier adopts a simple differential architecture. In order to stabilize the gain of the amplifier
a replica amplifier and a differential difference amplifier are used to control the transconductance of the amplifier's input transistors. The proposed open-loop residue amplifier can be used in applications of lower supply voltage. Common-mode control circuits are not needed for the amplifier because the gain control circuit has no influence on the output common-mode level of the amplifier. The proposed amplifier a
chieves the designs of lower power consumption and higher response speed compared with the amplifier that adopts cascode and common-mode feedback architecture. Designed in a 0.18 μm CMOS technology
the open-loop amplifier consumed only 5.5 mW at a 1.8 V supply voltage. The settling time of the open-loop residue amplifier is less than 3 ns at maximum step input. A pipelined ADC using this open-loop residue amplifier achieves a resolution of 12 bit and a sampling rate of 4×10
7
s
-1
by carrying out digital calibration in background.
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