Advances on Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters

Dear Colleagues,

Driven by silicon foundries’ scaling efforts to enable massive distribution of integrated systems with sensing, communication and power management capabilities (i.e., the Internet-of-Things (IoTs) sensing nodes), data converters have received special attention among the most critical integrated circuit blocks owing to their link between the real-world analog environment and digital processing units.

Implementing data converters in nanoscale in CMOS technologies poses several challenges, including a dramatic drop in the available power supply headroom, inferior noise performance, ultra-low low power requirement, and challenges in designing main conventional main blocks, such as operational amplifiers and comparators.

To fully benefit from this downscaling, the above challenges need to be addressed through holistic approaches that embrace scaling-friendly CMOS process. Addressing these challenges implies redefining the way in which data converters are currently designed.

The scope of this Special Issue is to focus and report on the development of emerging techniques to design high performance analog to digital and digital to analog converts in nano-scale technologies.

Specifically, the research portfolio for this issue includes research work related to advances on Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters. The topics of primary research include but are not limited to:

• Nanoscale ultra-low power analog to digital and (ADCs) and analog to digital converters DACs;
• Digital calibration techniques for data converters;
• Higher spurs free dynamic range (SFDR) DACs;
• ADC-based front-end sensors;
• Time domain techniques for ultra-low voltage and power consumption;
• Hybrid time/voltage data converters;
• High resolution sigma delta modulators.

Prof. Dr. Kamal El-Sankary
Dr. Karama M. AL-Tamimi
Guest Editors

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