This paper presents a 12-bit 150-MHz current steering DAC with hierarchical symmetrical switching sequence that compensates gradient errors. The circuit of the DAC employs segmented architecture; the least significant bits (LSBs) steer a binary weighted array, while the most significant bits (MSBs) are thermometer decoded and steer a unary array. The measured differential nonlinearity and integ...

A 10-bit 140MS/s digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with improved current mirror is presented. In order to improve the resolusion of a 10-bit DAC, a segmented decoding plus R-2R architecture will be introduced. DAC system modeling shows that the dynamic performance of the DAC is strongly dependent on the output impedance of DAC current source. The gain-boosting technique is applied to increase t...

We study the Cauchy problem for Schrödinger equations with repulsive quadratic potential and power-like nonlinearity. The local problem is well-posed in the same space as that used when a confining harmonic potential is involved. For a defocusing nonlinearity, it is globally well-posed, and a scattering theory is available, with no long range effect for any superlinear nonlinearity. When the no...

A quantitative analysis of the effects of nonlinearity in an open loop amplifier on the linearity of negative feedback amplifiers is presented. Results show that the ratio of the open-loop nonlinearity (OLN) to the closedloop nonlinearity (CLN) in the presence of varying amounts of secondand third-order nonlinearities in the open loop amplifier is quantified. Results show that for the same amou...

In this paper a new approach to the measurement and compensation of the soft components of the integral nonlinearity (INL) of the ADC in the time domain is presented, using both sine and triangular waves. Connection will be established between the user oriented nonlinear description based on memoryless nonlinear models using orthogonal polynomial series and the manufacturer oriented specificati...

A novel self-trimming algorithm for A/D converters [1,2] has been presented which continually trims thresholds in the flash A/D subconverters of two-stage and pipelined A/D converters. Roughly speaking, it trims thresholds up or down by small increments in such a way as to smooth out irregularities in the code density. This paper presents the mathematical analysis and design of the algorithm. T...

We examine the temperature dependence of thermal conductivity of one dimensional nonlinear (anharmonic) lattices with and without on-site potential. It is found from computer simulation that the heat conductivity depends on temperature via the strength of nonlinearity. Based on this correlation, we make a conjecture in the effective phonon theory that the meanfree-path of the effective phonon i...

A radio over fiber (RoF) system is a kind of analog optical transmission system and considered as a strong candidate for the next-generation fronthaul link in the future mobile network. In RoF systems, nonlinearity compensation is essential to increase the link capacity. In this paper, we propose a nonlinearity detection and compensation scheme using a monitoring channel in RoF systems. A monit...

The existence of 9-variable Boolean functions having nonlinearity strictly greater than 240 has been shown very recently (May 2006) by Kavut, Maitra and Yücel. The functions with nonlinearity 241 have been identified by a heuristic search in the class of Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions (RSBFs). In this paper we efficiently perform the exhaustive search to enumerate the 9-variable RSBFs hav...

The paper examines the problem of achieving a fast measurement of nonlinearity for a dithered converter. It is shown that, since dither removes small-scale systematic errors, measuring the remaining large-scale (smooth) nonlinearity can be efficiently achieved via a fast frequency domain test, formerly analyzed by the authors for conventional converters without dither. The test appears especial...