In systems constrained by battery power or scavenged energy limits, ADC energy efficiency as expressed by the fJ/step figure-of-merit is a critical design driver. This paper describes a time-domain approach to determine the fundamental limit on ADC performance for techniques such as VCO-based ADCs which perform the ADC function in the time domain.

Creator

• Pham, Long
• Gong, Jianping
• Li, Sulin
• McNeill, John

Publisher

• IEEE

Year

• 2017

Resource type

• Conference Proceeding

Event

• 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) [Baltimore, MD, USA]

Extent

• 4 pages

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• In Copyright

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Citation

• J. McNeill, S. Li, J. Gong and L. Pham, "Fundamental limits on energy efficiency performance of VCO-based ADCs," 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2017, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISCAS.2017.8050481.

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• 2024-01-07