Comparator Project

Comparator Project - Due Thurs, Nov. 27, 1997

Your goal is to design two high speed fully-differential comparators and compare the performance between the two designs. Both designs are intended for the front end of an 8-bit flash A/D and therefore have limited power dissipation.

Main Specs for one comparator:
Fully-differential input.
0.2mW total power dissipation from a 3V supply
2 volt peak-to-peak input differential swing
10uA reference current available
2mV resolution
Determine the maximum clock-rate.

Design 1: Continuous-time front-end (i.e. not capacitively coupled)
Design 2: A switched-capacitor front-end with offset compensation always clocked. Assume input capacitors are 100fF each and that the bottom plate parasitica capacitance is 33fF while the top plate parasitic capacitance is 10fF.

Spice Models


Same as opamp project

Updated Sept 25, 1997.