An 80 MHz, 80 mW, 8-b CMOS folding A/D converter with distributed track-and-hold preprocessing

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-µm standard digital CMOS technology