论文题目:A 12 bit Low Power SAR ADC for Implantable ECG Monitoring
作者:Bing Wang, Hanjun Jiang, Yanshu Guo, Zhihua Wang
期刊:Microelectronics
年份:2019.Dec.
卷(期)及页码:Vol.48, No.6, pp. 728 - 732+737
摘要:
An ultra-low power 12-bit successive-approximation register (SAR) ADC was designed for implantable electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring. In order to meet the requirements of low power consumption, a time-division comparison scheme with static pre-amplification comparators and dynamic pre-amplification comparators working at different timing was proposed. Low power was achieved on the basis of satisfying the comparison accuracy by the proposed scheme. In addition, the techniques such as asynchronous self-controlled logic operating, dual-voltage power supplying and transistors minimum gate length stacking were utilized to reduce the leakage current. This ADC was implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process. The simulation results showed that, at a sampling rate of 1 kS/s, the SNDR was more than 69.9 dB at different corners, the corresponding effective number of bit (ENOB) was 11.3 bit, and the power consumption was only 30 nW. The leakage consumption occupied 11% of the total power consumption. Thus the figure-of-merit (FoM) was 11.8 fJ/(conv·step).