An Energy-Efficient Comparator With Dynamic Floating Inverter Amplifier

作者: Xiyuan Tang , Linxiao Shen , Begum Kasap , Xiangxing Yang , Wei Shi

DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2960485

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摘要: This article presents an energy-efficient comparator design. The pre-amplifier adopts an inverter-based input pair powered by a floating reservoir capacitor; it realizes both current reuse and dynamic bias, thereby significantly boosting gm/ID and reducing noise. Moreover, it greatly reduces the influence of the process corner and the input common-mode voltage on the comparator performance, including noise, offset, and delay. A prototype comparator in 180 nm achieves 46-μV input-referred noise while consuming only 1 pJ per comparison …

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