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The models and procedures for designing pipeline analog-to-digital converters presented here compensate for device inaccuracies, enabling high-performance specifications which can be met within brief design cycles with significantly fewer model iterations.

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This book presents models and procedures to design pipeline analog-to-digital converters, compensating for device inaccuracies, so that high-performance specs can be met within short design cycles. These models are capable of capturing and predicting the behavior of pipeline data converters within less than half-a-bit deviation, versus transistor-level simulations. As a result, far fewer model iterations are required across the design cycle. Models described in this book accurately predict transient behaviors, which are key to the performance of discrete-time systems and hence to the performance of pipeline data converters.

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Pipeline ADC Overview.- Design Methodologies for Pipeline ADCs.- Pipeline ADC Electrical-level Synthesis Tool.- Behavioural Modeling of Pipeline ADCs.- Case Study: Design of a 10BIT@60MS Pipeline ADC.- Experimental Results and State of the Art.- Conclusions and Future Lines of Research.

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