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A Low Power Fully Differential Level-Crossing ADC With Low Power Charge Redistribution Input for Biomedical Applications

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A low-power fully differential level-crossing analog-to-digital converter (LC-ADC) for biomedical applications is presented. Different from conventional ADCs based on the uniform sampling rate, LC-ADC generates fewer samples for biomedical signals… Click to show full abstract

A low-power fully differential level-crossing analog-to-digital converter (LC-ADC) for biomedical applications is presented. Different from conventional ADCs based on the uniform sampling rate, LC-ADC generates fewer samples for biomedical signals and leads to less power consumption in the following blocks. In this design, the power consumption of n-bit DAC and digital parts is reduced significantly with respect to the conventional LC-ADCs. The proposed method uses a charge redistribution block (CRB) instead of the n-bit DAC, which leads to a large reduction in average switching energy. Besides energy-saving, the proposed switching scheme also reduces the complexity of the controlling logic circuit, providing reduced complexity and low power consumption. Another advantage of the proposed LC-ADC is its fully differential structure. As a result, SNDR is improved by decreasing the levels of even harmonics. The proposed LC-ADC is designed in 0.18 $\mu {\mathrm{ m}}$ CMOS technology. Post-layout simulation results show an effective number of bits (ENOB) of up to 6.8 bits with about 97–188 nW power consumption under 0.8 V supply voltage and input signal bandwidth from 1 Hz to 4 kHz. The ADC occupies a silicon area of only $60\mathbf {\times }65\,\,\mu \text{m}^{2}$

Keywords: low power; power fully; level crossing; fully differential; power; differential level

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Year Published: 2022

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