Design and analysis of low-power high-speed shared charge reset technique based dynamic latch comparator. (April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Savani, Vijay; Devashrayee, N.M.
• Is Part Of: Microelectronics journal. Volume 74(2018)
• Page Start: 116
• Page End: 126
• Publication Date: 2018-04
• Subjects: Latched comparator -- Double-tail dynamic comparator -- Shared charge reset technique -- Low-power comparator -- High-speed comparator; Microelectronics -- Periodicals; Microélectronique -- Périodiques; Microelectronics; Electronic journals; Journals - contents and abstracts; Periodicals; 621.3805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.mejo.2018.01.020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0959-8324

Abstract

Abstract: Circuit intricacy, high-speed, low-power, small area requirement, and high resolution are crucial factors for high-speed and low-power applications like analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The delay analysis of classical dynamic latch comparators is presented to add more insight of their design parameters, which effects the performance parameter. In this research, a new architecture of dynamic latch comparator is presented, which is able to provide high-speed, consumes low-power and requires smaller die area. The proposed comparator benefits from a new shared charge logic based reset technique to achieve high-speed with low-power consumption. It is shown by simulation and analysis that the delay time is significantly reduced compared to a conventional dynamic latched comparator. The proposed circuit is designed and simulated in 90 nm CMOS technology. The results show that, for the proposed comparator, the delay is 51.7 p s and consumes only 33.62 μ W power, at 1 V supply voltage and 1 GHz clock frequency. In addition, the proposed dynamic latch comparator has a layout size of 7.2μm × 8.1μm.