This paper presents redundancy-bandwidth scalable techniques to deal with the intersymbol interference distortions for current-steering digital-to-analog converters in high-speed applications. A switching strategy that explores the use of redundant current sources is proposed to realize a signal-independent element transition rate, ie, the number of switching activities during the transition of successive sampling clock cycles. With a certain number of redundant current sources, this strategy significantly reduces the intersymbol interference distortions without oversampling operation or causing signal attenuation, which makes it appealing for high-speed applications. As analyzed in this paper, the number of required redundant current sources is scalable for different bandwidth requirement in specific applications, leading to 3 redundancy-bandwidth scalable trade-offs between the cost from redundant current sources and the high-dynamic-range bandwidth. In implementation, we propose a customdesigned decoder, named as the overlap-controlled data-weighted averaging (OC-DWA). Compared with the existing similar-purpose designs, the proposed OC-DWA decoder realizes the current sources selection with a simple barrel rotator, which is of much lower hardware complexity and energy consumption.Simulations of a digital-to-analog converter with this decoder exhibit an enhanced dynamic range over the entire Nyquist band, which verifies the redundancy-bandwidth scalability of the proposed techniques.
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