An On-Chip Adc Bist Solution And The Bist Enabled Calibration Scheme

This paper presents a complete on-chip ADC BIST solution based on a segmented stimulus error identification algorithm known as USER-SMILE. By adapting the algorithm for efficient hardware realization, the solution is implemented towards a 1Msps 12-bit SAR ADC on a 28nm CMOS automotive microcontroller. While sufficient test accuracy is demonstrated, the solution is further extended to correct linearity errors of ADC. The entire BIST and calibration circuitry occupies 0.028mm(2) silicon area while enabling more than 10 times tester time reduction and >10dB THD/SFDR performance improvement over an existing structural capacitor-weight-identification calibration scheme. The added die cost is estimated to be 1/8 of the saved test cost from tester time reduction alone.