A new digital background calibration for a radix-4 pipeline is presented.
Output of each stage is defined as the sum of the ideal and error signal.
For cancelation of non-ideal impairment a nonlinear adaptive filter is designed.
The INL/DNL of a 14-bit pipeline are improved from 17LSB/3LSB to 0.45LSB/0.41LSB.
The SNDR/SFDR parameters are increased from 30 dB/36 dB to 83 dB/90 dB.