{"title":"A High Resolution Multibit Sigma-delta Modulator With Individual Level Averaging","authors":"Feng Chen, B. Leung","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.1994.586236","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A second-order sigma-delta modulator with a 3-b internal quantizer employing the individual level averaging technique has been designed and implemented in a 1.2 /spl mu/m CMOS technology. Testing results show no observable harmonic distortion components above the noise floor. Peak S/(N+D) ratio of 91 dB and dynamic range of 96 dB have been achieved at a clock rate of 2.56 MHz for a 20 kHz baseband. No tone is observed in the baseband as the amplitude of a 10 kHz input sine wave is reduced from -0.5 dB to -107 dB below the voltage reference. The active area of the prototype chip is 3.1 mm/sup 2/ and it dissipates 67.5 mW of power from a 5 V supply. >","PeriodicalId":350730,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"128","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.1994.586236","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A second-order sigma-delta modulator with a 3-b internal quantizer employing the individual level averaging technique has been designed and implemented in a 1.2 /spl mu/m CMOS technology. Testing results show no observable harmonic distortion components above the noise floor. Peak S/(N+D) ratio of 91 dB and dynamic range of 96 dB have been achieved at a clock rate of 2.56 MHz for a 20 kHz baseband. No tone is observed in the baseband as the amplitude of a 10 kHz input sine wave is reduced from -0.5 dB to -107 dB below the voltage reference. The active area of the prototype chip is 3.1 mm/sup 2/ and it dissipates 67.5 mW of power from a 5 V supply. >