Hello, all

I want to design a differential output comparator which implements auto zero method to cancel out the offset. The comparator did cancel out the offset. The charge injection is supposed to go away with a fully differential preamp but still there. I was wondering if any method can remove that injection. The comparator is for SAR adc. Thanks

Hello,  Sheldon

Thanks for your help.  Like you said, adding another SC stage is helpful to reduce the charge injection which goes out to the output terminal of the 1st SC. I should tell my problem specifically. I care about the effect of charge injection at the input or so-called residual offset. When simulating a preamp with an ideal clock(Gswitch in HSPICE)for auto zeroing, there is no charge injection. However, replace an ideal clock with real mos switches, an error is found out.
Regards,

nobody

Hi nobody,

Sheldon is right. If you care about residual offset effect, then you are mainly interested on the charge injection when both inputs are balanced. Therefore if your circuit is designed also in a balanced way you should not see much effect of the charge injection on your input.
Nevertheless, apart from trying out different ways of sampling, you might want to also try sizing your switches differently to reduce the injection effect. For example, increasing their RON should help reduce the injection since less charge is accumulated in the channel prior to turning the switch off. Obviously you can only increase such RON up to the point that it does not affect the settling time requirements for your holding caps that perform the auto-zeroing operation.

Regards
Tosei

Tlaloc brought a good point. However if there is offset in the amplifier (as will be the case in reality) that means the amplifier will not be perfectly balanced (though the topology might be). Consequently a small portion of the CM charge injection noise might show up as a differential signal.
In addition  since the amplifier will be unbalance due to the input offset, the CMRR will be finite and addition diff signal will be observed as a consequence of the CM hops at fs translated into diff signal.

Nobody: have you tried checking the charge injection effect as a function of the input referred offset to be canceled. If the effect is noticeable then you might be dealing with something like I just described. In this case you might want to improve the CMRR features of your amplifier.

Regards
Tosei