mfkiwl/fpga_adc

An FPGA-based 7-ENOB 600 MSample/s ADC without any External Components

An FPGA-based 7-ENOB 600 MSample/s ADC without any External Components

This repository contains the VHDL code of the proposed ADC from the paper An FPGA-based 7-ENOB 600 MSample/s ADC without any External Components published at the conference FPGA 2021.

VHDL

The VHDL code of the ADC is provided in VHDL/adc/adc.vhd. The ADC was implemented on a ZCU104 demo board from Xilinx which deploys the Ultrascale+ FPGA XCZU7EV-2FFVC1156.

Constraints

The following constraints are necessary for the ADC to work:

set_property OUTPUT_IMPEDANCE RDRV_60_60 [get_ports inp]
set_property SLEW SLOW [get_ports inp]

This sets the output impedance and the slewrate of the pin which is used to create the reference slope.

set_false_path -from [get_pins clk_wiz_0/inst/mmcme4_adv_inst/CLKOUT0] -to [get_pins {adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/gen_TDC[*].*.inst_TDC/inst_carryChain/output_buffer[*].*/D}]
set_false_path -from [get_pins clk_wiz_0/inst/mmcme4_adv_inst/CLKOUT1] -to [get_pins {adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/gen_TDC[*].*.inst_TDC/inst_carryChain/output_buffer[*].*/D}]
...
set_false_path -from [get_pins adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/inst_calLength/*/C] -to [get_pins {adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/gen_TDC[*].*.inst_TDC/inst_carryChain/output_buffer[*].*/D}]
set_false_path -from [get_pins adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/inst_inlCorrection/inst_controlFalling/*/C] -to [get_pins {adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/gen_TDC[*].*.inst_TDC/inst_carryChain/output_buffer[*].*/D}]
set_false_path -from [get_pins adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/inst_inlCorrection/inst_controlRising/*/C] -to [get_pins {adc_0/U0/inst_TDC/gen_TDC[*].*.inst_TDC/inst_carryChain/output_buffer[*].*/D}]

To achieve the timing with this ADC, it is necessary to set a false path from all signals which are fed into the carry chain to the carry chain FFs.

DRC error

During placement a DRC error will occur which states that a single ended output buffer is not allowed to drive a differential input buffer. This error can be downgraded to a warning with the following tcl script:

set_property SEVERITY WARNING [get_drc_checks REQP-1581]

Known limitations

• The delay chain cannot be longer than 1.5 times the period of the clock used to determine the length of the delay chain. In other words, if a delay element has a delay of 4ps and a 600MHz clock is used, the delay chain cannot be longer than 625 delay elements (1250 if the XOR outputs are also used).