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rabeh4
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Settling in a Pipelined ADC
Jul 09th, 2016, 2:49pm
 
Dear All,

As we know that from theory in a Pipelined ADC each stage must be settled within half of the clock period. Say, the ADC I am designing has a sampling frequency of 50MSPs which equals a period of 20 nS. So theoretically each stage must be settled within 10 nS i.e. in less then half of the clock cycle. I thought a lot about it but did not understand it  completely. How can I make sure that each stage has been settled within half of the clock cycle ? How can I test it ?

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Re: Settling in a Pipelined ADC
Reply #1 - Aug 29th, 2016, 2:24pm
 
You have to make sure that you have settled with the required resolution
This thesis discussed the linear settling part of it on page 26
http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~johns/nobots/theses/pdf/2008_ahmed_phd.pdf

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Re: Settling in a Pipelined ADC
Reply #2 - Oct 29th, 2016, 6:17am
 
Rab4,

  Not sure I understand the question. You put in a full scale step and
simulate. Allow a lot longer than required to allow the circuit to settle
fully. Then measure the time point where the output is a 1/2 lsb
different than final settled value. The other thing is do you really
that tight a settling, doesn't bit overlap relieve the settling requirements.

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Re: Settling in a Pipelined ADC
Reply #3 - Sep 23rd, 2018, 9:23am
 
Hi Sheldon,
I think the bit-overlap helps in easing the design of flash in pipeline datapath. But any error in DAC is the error in overall ADC resolution.
So the DAC typically needs to be as accurate as the ADC itself. But this relaxes as we go down the stages.
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