A 0.5–2.5-GS/s Resettable Ring-VCO-Based ADC Eliminating Quantization-Noise Shaping https://sscs.ieee.org/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8fcdccb598784519a6037b6f80b02dee03caa773fc8d223c13bfce179d70f915?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Abstract:
This article presents a Nyquist-rate Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operating from 0.5 to 2.5 GS/s based on an open-loop resettable ring VCO (R-RVCO). By inherently embedding the $1 {\,}-{\,}z^{-1}$ transfer function, the R-RVCO eliminates the need for an explicit differentiator, suppresses VCO phase-noise (PN) integration, and avoids quantization-noise (QN) shaping within …