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Practical Issues Designing
Switched-Capacitor Circuit
Material partially prepared by
Sang Wook Park and Shouli Yan
ECEN 622 (ESS) Fall 2011
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MOS switch
o Excellent Roff
o Non-idea Effect
Charge injection, Clock feed-through
Finite and nonlinear Ron
Cox Cov Cov
Ron
G
S D
G
S D
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Charge Injection
o During TR. is turned on, Qch is formed at channel surface
When TR. is off, Qch1 is absorbed by Vs, but Qch2 is injected to
C
o Charge injected through overlap capacitor
o Appeared as an offset voltage error on C
G
VS
Qch1 Qch2
C
( )thGSOXch VVWLCQ −=
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Charge Injection Effect
o When clock changes from high to low, Qch2 is injected to C
o Compared to ideal sw., MOS sw. creates voltage error on
Vout
Ideal sw.
MOS sw. 1V
0.1pF
CLK
Vout
CLK
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Decrease Charge Injection Effect (1)
o Decrease the effect of Qch o Use either bigger C or small TR.
(small ratio of Cox/C) o Increased Ron
W/L = 10/0.4
W/L = 1/0.4 1V
0.1pF
CLK
Vout
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Decrease Charge Injection Effect (2)
Single sw.
With dummy sw.
o Use dummy switch which provides opposite charge o Adjust size
of dummy sw. for exact canceling o Needs opposite clock
1V 0.1pF
CLK
Vout
CLKb
10/0.4 3.1/0.4
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Decrease Charge Injection Effect (3)
NMOS sw.
CMOS sw.
o Use N/PMOS complementary switch o Both Qch cancel out due to
their opposite polarity o Needs opposite clock, increased parasitic
capacitance
1V 0.1pF
CLK
Vout
CLKb
10/0.4
23/0.4
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Nonlinear Ron
N/PMOS
NMOS
o Ron varies with signal amplitude o CMOS sw. can adopt large
signal o Needs opposite clock, increased parasitic capacitance
Vin
VDD
1.5V
GND
7.5/0.4
18/0.4 PMOS
Vin
Ron
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Slow Settling due to high Ron
o Ron varies with signal amplitude o CMOS sw. can adopt large
signal o Needs opposite clock, increased parasitic capacitance
Vin
CLK
10pF
Vout
20pF
CLKb
V1
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Slow Settling due to high Ron
Ideal sw.
NMOS sw.
o Small NMOS sw. (5/0.4) o With high Ron, output is not settled
o In case of large signal input, N/PMOS sw. should be used
Vout
V1
Vout
V1
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Slow Settling due to high Ron
Ideal sw.
NMOS sw.
o Large NMOS sw. (20/0.4) o Low Ron makes output settled fast o
Close to ideal sw.
Vout
V1
Vout
V1
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Switch and Clock Arrangement
M1 M2
M3 M4
M5
M6
C
C3
C1
C2
CK
CKe
CKbe
CKb
CKb
CK
CK CKb
CKe CKbe
o M2, M4 : small sw., Others : large sw. o M2, M4 turn off
earlier : minimize charge injection effect o Charge injection
M2, M4 (M3, M6) : Signal independent Others : Signal
dependent
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Switch and Clock Arrangement
Same sw. (5/0.4) Same CLK
Different sw. (30/0.4, 5/0.4) Early CLK
Ideal sw.
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PSS vs. Transient Simulation
o PSS simulation is used to check the frequency response for
Switched-capacitor circuit o Should be compared with transient
simulation
fin = 100KHz
fin = 10KHz PSS-PAC simulation
fin = 200KHz
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Capacitor Layout
o Capacitor is implemented with PIP (poly) or MIM (metal) o
Total capacitance is the sum of Cox and Cfr’s o Ratio is more
important than absolute value o Multiples of unit capacitor can
minimize ratio error o Unit capacitor can be determined by process
o Surrounding capacitor bank with dummies is preferred
Cox Cfr Cfr
Cox
Cfr
Cfr Cfr
Cfr
C1
C1
C2
C2 C2
D D D D D
D D D D D
D
D
D
D
D
32
21=
CC
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Layout Example
o Example of SC biquad circuit (TSMC 0.35um)
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Low Voltage Switched Capacitor Circuits
• Challenges of LV SC circuit design [cas95] – SC circuits are
widely used in filters,
data converters, sample and hold, and other analog signal
processing building blocks.
– LV SC circuit design is very challenging due to the
difficulties involved in turning on MOS switches.
• Solutions – Low and/or multi Vt process – Clock boostering or
bootstrap – Switched opamp
GON
VT,P VDD-VT,N
VDD
GON
VDD-VT,N VT,P
VDD
Switch conductance for high VDD(such as 5V)
Switch conductance for low VDD
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Low Voltage Switched Capacitor Circuits (Cont’d)
• Low and/or multi Vt process [ada90] – Expensive – Switch
leakage while it is off – Vt is not tightly controlled for low
Vt transistors • Clock boostering or bootstrap
– Earlier work ( see right figure ) required that transistors
could sustain maximum breakdown voltage of 2Vdd [nak91, cho95,
rab98]
– This could not be used in finer technologies due to reduced
breakdown voltage
VDD
2VDD
2VDD
0
VDD
0
M1 M2
M3
M4
C1 C2
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Low Voltage Switched Capacitor Circuits (Cont’d)
– Constant overdrive bootstrap clock driving solved this problem
[abo99]
– Reliability is improved as each transistor just sustains Vdd
as maximum voltage
– More power consumption and lower speed due to its complexity –
Potential reliability problem during transient
φ1
φ1
φ1
φ1 φ1
A B
VDD
CB
At φ1 CB
VDD
A B
Msw
At φ1
A B
CB Msw
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– Detailed schematic and wave form [abo99] • M1, M2, C1, C2 and
the inverter could be shared by the switches
with the same phase, other components need to be repeated for
every switch.
VDD
M1
M2
C1 C2
M3
C3
M4
M5
M7
M10
M9
M13
M8
φ1
φ1
φ1
Msw
M12 A B
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• Switched opamp [cro94,bas97, pel98] – In conventional SC
circuits, S1
is the critical switch, as it sees wide signal swing
– Switched opamp eliminated S1 by switching on and off the
amplifier
– True low voltage operation – Potential of low power
consumption – Slower speed ( usually clock
freq. is around several KHz to 1 or 2 MHz ) due to the need to
switch on and off the opamp
CFB
CIN
S1 S2 S3
S4
VREF Conventional SC circuits
Switched opamp circuits
CFB
CIN
S2 S3
S4
VREF
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• Low voltage also poses difficulties for designing the SC
Opamps – To maximize output voltage swing, cascoding of output
transistors should be avoided – To achieve required DC gain, two
stage architecture may
have to be used instead of single stage OTA – Frequency
compensation is an essential issue to make the
amplifier stable and fast settling – Input common mode bias
voltage need to close one of the
supply rails to make input transistors operate correctly ( close
to Vss -- PMOS input; close to Vdd – NMOS input )
– Input and output need to be biased at different DC levels,
level shift may be necessary for switched opamp circuits
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• LV SC opamp design example I [abo99] – Two-stage architecture
is adopted to achieve high enough
gain – Simple output stage maximizes output voltage swing –
First stage is folded-cascode stage with cascode load to
obtain a high gain, as nodes A and B have a small signal voltage
swing, and supply voltage and VTN permit this luxury
M1 M2
M3 M4
M6
M8
M10
M5
M7
M9
M11
M13
M15
M12
M14
Cc Cc
VDD=1.5 V
VI+ VI- VO- VO+ A B
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– Cascode frequency compensation [ahu83] is used to have a
higher bandwidth over conventinal Miller compensation
– The functionality of the circuit is independent of VIN_CM
setting, thus VIN_CM could be set to a DC level which makes the
amplifier work properly
Cf
Cs
S1
S1
S1
VIN VOUT
1.5b AD
C
output
0 +VR -VR
VIN_CM
The X2 residue amplifier for 1.5b/stage pipeline A/D
converter
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• LV SC opamp design example II [rab97] – Two-stage architecture
with miller compensation – Push-pull operation of the second stage
maximize driving
capacity – Two common-mode feedback loops are required to
stablize the bias condition
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• LV SC opamp design example III [pel98] – One-stage
architecture is used due to relaxed system
requirement for the DC gain – Class AB operation lowers power
consumption – Low voltage current mirror makes more room for the
input
transistors
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A. Ishikawa, A. Barlow, and K. Takasuka, “A 1.4 V switched
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