An 80-MHz, 80-mW, 8-b CMOS Folding A/D Converter with Distributed Track-and-Hold Preprocessing - Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

An analog-to-digital converter incorporating a distributed track-and-hold preprocessing combined with folding and interpolation techniques has been designed in CMOS technology. The presented extension of the well known folding concept has resulted in a 75 MHz maximum full-scale input signal frequency. A signal-to-noise ratio of 44 dB is obtained for this frequency. The 8-b A/D converter achieves a clock frequency of 80 MHz with a power dissipation of 80 mW from a 3.3 V supply voltage. The active chip area is 0.3 mm2 in 0.5-pm standard digital CMOS technology.