Presentation by Professor Un-Ku Moon, Oregon State University: July 19, 2010
Emerging ADCs
Most analog IC designers and students are drawn to ADCs. While some ADC
realizations have had a lasting impact, examples including pipelined ADCs
with digital redundancy, flash ADCs with folding and interpolation, and
multi-bit delta-sigma modulators with dynamic element matching, there are
many more recent and emerging ADC design techniques that are receiving
much attention and also gaining momentum in some areas. Many of these
ideas are showered with doubts and honest criticism. However, we may
also be entering a new phase where a few of these developments would
help resolve the tough submicron scaling challenge that analog designers
face today. This tutorial will summarize and ponder the impact of a few
selective as well as random slices of these emerging ADC designs.
Professor Un-Ku Moon has been with the Oregon State University since 1998.
Prior to that, he was with Bell Labs (Reading and Allentown) 1988-1989
and 1994-1998. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of
Washington, a master's degree from Cornell University, and a PhD from
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research
activities are found at https://eecs.oregonstate.edu/~moon/research/