Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Ramp ADC Bug Video

Deyan Levski, University of Oxford, UK, publishes a companion video to his IISW 2017 paper "A 12-bit Column-Parallel Flash TDC-Interpolated Ramp ADC with Online Digital Delay Element Correction" explaining a bug causing a larger than expected DNL in the ADC - quite a rare, possibly unique, video where an original designer explains his own bugs:

4 comments:

  1. This video is extremely interesting, thanks for sharing it with us!
    (And for reporting it)

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  2. What an honor to see this here! Should I have known I would have done a better and shorter demo. This link appeared on the last slide of the IISW presentation and intended to elaborate on the DNL glitching on every 16th code, as the 9-minute presentation slot was not enough for this.

    Anyway, thanks Vladimir for posting it.

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  3. There have been attempts at having designers talk about their errors in iscas before, but i don't know if it has not been repeated http://www.iscas2012.org/sub/mistakes.html

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    1. Actually, this 2012 mistakes session was a repetition from ISCAS 2011:

      http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2011/06/confessions-confesstions.html

      However, these mistakes were not recorded on Youtube, to the best of my knowledge.

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