2009 27th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium Calibration and Testing Time Reduction Techniques for a Digitally-Calibrated Pipelined ADC May 03-May 07 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3598-2
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VTS.2009.48
Modern mixed-signal/RF circuits with digital calibration capabilities could achieve significant performance improvements once the calibration process is completed; however, the calibration time is often very long – in the order of hundreds of milliseconds or even seconds. As testing such devices would require completion of calibration first, lengthy calibration time would result in unacceptably long testing time. In this paper, we propose design-for-testability modifications and acceleration techniques for adaption algorithms to reduce the calibration time required for testing a digitally-calibrated pipelined ADC. For the pipelined ADC proposed in [2], simulation results show that the proposed techniques can achieve a 60X reduction in the calibration time.
Index Terms:
digital calibration, calibratoin acceleration, least-mean-square (LMS) adapatation, ADC testing, mixed-signal testing
Citation:
Hsiu-Ming Chang, Chin-Hsuan Chen, Kuan-Yu Lin, Kwang-Ting Cheng, "Calibration and Testing Time Reduction Techniques for a Digitally-Calibrated Pipelined ADC," vts, pp.291-296, 2009 27th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 2009 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||