A Nanoelectromechanical Resonator-Based Flash Style Analog to Digital Converter

Xuecui Zou; Sally Ahmed; Syed Kazmi; Pedro M. F. J. Da Costa; Mohammad I. Younis; Hossein Fariborzi

doi:10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056381

A Nanoelectromechanical Resonator-Based Flash Style Analog to Digital Converter

Xuecui Zou, Sally Ahmed, Syed Kazmi, Pedro M. F. J. Da Costa, Mohammad I. Younis, Hossein Fariborzi

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In this work, the design of a flash-style nanoelectromechanical resonator-based analog to digital converter (ADC) is presented. The operation of the proposed ADC depends on tuning the beam resonance frequency by the sampled voltage, using the electrostatic softening effect. In this paper, experimental results are demonstrated for a 3-bit ADC. The proposed solution reduces design complexity by 20 times and reduces energy consumption by one order of magnitude compared to conventional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) counterpart. While the measured sampling rate is 8 kS/s, resonators with GHz resonance frequency can increase the sampling rate to MHz and above, making this technology a viable option for medium speed, ultra-low power IoT and sensor applications.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	822-825
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781728135809
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056381
State	Published - Apr 7 2020

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