Date of Award

2004

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Godi Fischer

Abstract

The topic of this thesis is to design and implement a low voltage, high speed, 10-bit Digital to Analog Converter in 0.5 μm CMOS technology. Design, architecture, methodology, and performance of the proposed DAC are presented.

CMOS Current Steering DACs are inherently fast and thus represent a good choice if high speed is important. To reduce the linear graded mismatch the positioning of current sources was carefully studied. Different architectures are outlined and segmented architecture has been implemented due to its suitableness for high speed applications. Two sets of DACs with different types of current sources have been fabricated and the performance was verified.

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