Calibration Techniques for Digitally Assisted Nyquist-Rate ADCs

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by  Schekeb Fateh

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Calibration Techniques for Digitally
Assisted Nyquist-Rate ADCs
Doctoral Thesis
Author(s):
Fateh, Schekeb
Publication date:
2016
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Calibration Techniques for Digitally Assisted
Nyquist-Rate ADCs

DISS. ETH NO. 23227
Calibration Techniques for
Digitally Assisted
Nyquist-Rate ADCs
A thesis submitted to attain the degree of
DOCTOR OF SCIENCES of ETH ZURICH
(Dr. sc. ETH Zurich)
presented by
SCHEKEB FATEH
MSc ETH EEIT
born on April 23rd, 1983
citizen of Biel/Bienne BE, Switzerland
accepted on the recommendation of
Prof. Dr. Qiuting Huang, examiner
Prof. Dr. Christoph Studer, co-examiner
2016

Dedicated to my family.
“The garden of the world
has no limits,
except in your mind.”
Rumi
Acknowledgements
First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my advisor,
Prof. Dr. Q. Huang. His continuous support, intelligent guidance,
stimulating discussions, and patience throughout the course of this
challenging research were invaluable to the work presented in this
thesis, and I am very grateful to him for providing an outstanding
research environment at the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS).
At the same time, I would like to express my gratitude to my co-
advisor, Prof. Dr. C. Studer, who kindly agreed to act as an external
co-examiner of my dissertation. His interest in my work and his
comments during our discussions led to numerous improvements of
this thesis.
MyveryspecialthanksgotoProf.Dr.L.Benini,Prof.Dr.A.Burg,
and Prof. Dr. H. Kaeslin for numerous fruitful discussions.
I owe special thanks to Dr. J. Treichler, P. Sch¨onle, G. Rovere,
M. Safi, M. Rashid, and Dr. T. Burger for proofreading this thesis.
Many thanks also go to my former colleagues at work, in particu-
lar R. Blattmann, Dr. C. Benkeser, Dr. T. Christen, Dr. Y. Chen,
Dr. P. Greisen, C. Keogh, Dr. P. Meinerzhagen, Dr. C. Martelli,
Dr. D. Seethaler, F. Schulthess, Dr. C. Senning, and R. Ulrich.
Special thanks also go to Advanced Circuit Pursuit (ACP) for
prototyping the ASICs being essential for my research. This includes
mycolleaguesworkingthere,inparticularDr.F.Bu¨rgin,Dr.J.Chen,
Dr. Y. Chen, Dr. T. Dellsperger, Dr. I. Kouchev, D. Riha, Dr. J. Ro-
gin, and Dr. D. Tschopp.
Moreover, I would like to thank the staff members of the IIS and
the Design Zentrum (DZ), namely A. Feigin, C. Wicki, H. Gisler,
F. Kunz, N. Felber, F. Gu¨rkaynak, and B. Muheim, for the excellent
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maintenance of the infrastructure. Special thanks also go to M. Lanz
for bonding my ASICs.
Many thanks also go to my present colleagues of the Analog and
Mixed-Signal and the Digital Circuits and Systems Design Groups
for their friendship and support, in particular L. Bettini, S. Belfanti,
P. Bunjaku, X. Han, T. Kleier, H. Kr¨oll, D. Luu, L. Wu, C. Roth,
B. Sporrer, S. Altorfer, B. Weber, D. Bellasi, M. Gautschi, C. Keller,
M. Schaffner, M. Mu¨hlberghuber, P. Vogel, P. Hager, Dr. A. Bar-
tolini, L. Cavigelli, Dr. A. Magno, Dr. A. Marongiu, A. Pullini, and
D. Palossi. I owe special thanks to C. Haller, E. Plank, A. Bakanova,
B. Malesevic, and F. Heitz for the administrative work during my
time at IIS.
Moreover,IwouldliketothankmycolleaguesoftheMicrelLabat
the university of Bologna, in particular S. Benatti, F. Casamassima,
Dr. B. Milosovic, M. Tomasini, and Dr. E. Farella.
It is also my pleasure to express my thanks to my colleagues and
friends, specially E. Auger, C. Sidler, N. H¨auptli, S. Serov, A. Gu¨zel,
P. Lu¨thi, J. Biveroni, K. Sartori, J. Ong, D. Juric, A. Di Carlo,
A.Kyburz,W.Liu,A.Barresi,andA.Zuberbu¨hler,forallthesupport
and unforgettable discussions.
In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to my family
for supporting my studies and encouraging me to pursue this career.
Manythankstomyparentsandmysiblingsforalltheirhelp. Special
thanksgoalsotomyfamilylivingintheNetherlandsforalltheirsup-
port. Inparticular,Ialsoowemanythankstomywifeforthesupport
andmotivationalongthisjourney. Iwouldliketodedicatethisthesis
tomyfamilyfortheirlove,patience,support,andunderstandingsince
they allowed me to spend most of the time on this thesis.
In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to B. Steiger,
E. Fu¨ger, C. Amstutz, H. Sahli, C. Koch, and A. Mastantuoni for all
their help and support in my past.
Finally, I appreciate the contributions to my research from the
following students: N. Agianniotis, and C. Zhang. I would like to
express my gratitude also to the students working part-time in the
analogLab,inparticularD.Burri,N.Brun,F.Glaser,andF.Huang.
They allowed me to concentrate on my research while taking over my
other duties at the IIS.
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This project has been partially funded by Nano-Tera.ch, which is
financed by the Swiss Confederation and scientifically evaluated by
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Zurich, May 23, 2016 Schekeb Fateh