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This thesis describes the design of high-performance data converters and bandgap references which are the essential com- ponents of signal processing. The designed components include: (1) voltage and current references which are used to generate precise and stable output voltages or currents; (2) a high- speed digital-to-analog (D/A) converter which is used to transfer the input digital code to output analog form in the video domain; (3) a medium-speed algorithmic analog-to-digital (A/D) converter which is used to encode input analog voltages into equivalent digital codes in the audio domain; (4) a low- voltage high-speed A/D converter which is used to convert input analog voltages into digital codes in the video domain. These voltage and current references circuits use the difference of MOS source- gate voltages to perform efficient curvature- compensation. In the D/A converter, a new current source called the threshold-voltage compensated current source is used to reduce the nonlinearity. The design of a CMOS algor- ithmic A/D converter is insensitive to capacitor-ratio accuracy as well as finite gain and offset voltage of operational ampli- fiers. In the design of a 3 V high-speed CMOS A/D converter,two- step subconverter architecture with 5-bit coarse and 3-bit fine stages, as well as two subconverters in parallel processing are used to increase the conversion rate.
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