A 10-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with a small area is proposed for data-driver integrated circuits of active-matrix liquid crystal display systems. The 10-bit DAC consists of a 7-bit resistor string, a 7-bit two-step decoder, a 2-bit logarithmic time interpolator, and a buffer amplifier. The proposed logarithmic time interpolation is achieved by controlling the charging time of a first-order low-pass filter composed of a resistor and a capacitor. The 7-bit two-step decoder that follows the 7-bit resistor string outputs an analog signal of the stepped wave with two voltage levels using the additional 1-bit digital code for the logarithmic time interpolation. The proposed 10-bit DAC is implemented using a 0.35-µm CMOS process and its supply voltage is scalable from 3.3V to 5.0V. The area of the proposed 10-bit logarithmic time interpolation DAC occupies 57% of that of the conventional 10-bit resistor-string DAC. The DNL and INL of the implemented 10-bit DAC are +0.29/-0.30 and +0.47/-0.36 LSB, respectively.

A bootstrapped analog switch with constant on-resistance is proposed for the successive approximation (SA) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that have many input-sampling switches. The initialization circuit, which is composed of a short pulse generator and a transmission gate, improves the linearity of the proposed bootstrapped analog switch by reducing the effect of the capacitive load. To evaluate the proposed bootstrapped analog switch, the 10-bit 1 MS/s CMOS SA ADC with a rail-to-rail differential input signal was designed by using a 0.18 µm CMOS process with 1.0 V supply voltage. The proposed bootstrapped analog switch reduced the maximum VGS variation of the conventional bootstrapped analog switch by 67%. It also enhanced the signal to noise-distortion ratio of the SA ADC by 4.8 dB when the capacitance of its gate node is 100 fF, and this improvement was maximized when the capacitance of its gate node increases.