A high speed comparator is presented in this paper
which is designed based on the theories of pre-amplifier and positive feedback.This comparator consists of a preamplifier
a master-slave latch
and an output buffer
to improve the resolution and decrease the occurrence probability of metastability.The comparator is fabricated in HHNEC 0.18μm SiGe BiCMOS process and is simulated using Cadence Spectre.The simulation results show that the resolution of the comparator is 4mV
and the differential output voltage swing is±300mV.The latch time and the recovery time of the comparator are relatively 37ps and 22ps