High-Speed Digital-to-Analog Converter Design Towards High Dynamic Range
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Su, Shiyu; Chen, Mike Shuo-Wei
- Source
- 2022 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2022 IEEE. :1-8 Apr, 2022
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Limiting
Digital-analog conversion
Conferences
Prototypes
Linearity
Dynamic range
Silicon
Digital-to-analog converter
delta-sigma modulation
hybrid
reconstruction filter
high speed
high linearity
- Language
- ISSN
- 2152-3630
High-performance digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is demanded in many electronic systems requiring the synthesis of a high dynamic-range wideband signal. In the real implementation of a DAC, its sample rate and dynamic range (determined by linearity and noise) typically tradeoff with each other, limiting the achievable dynamic range for high-speed operation. This paper reviews recent advances in DAC architectures and discusses various relevant circuit and signal processing techniques that allow a DAC to potentially achieve a high speed and high dynamic range simultaneously. Lastly, findings relating to recent DAC silicon prototypes aiming in this direction will also be reviewed.