Noise-Shaping Cyclic ADC Architecture

2015 ◽  
Vol 643 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Yukiko Arai ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Haruo Kobayashi ◽  
Tatsuji Matsuura ◽  
Osamu Kobayashi

This paper presents an ADC architecture comprising a pipelined cyclic ADC and continuous-time delta-sigma ADC; it provides high resolution at medium speed, with small power requirements. It is also reconfigurable for different combinations of speed, precision, and power consumption. The cyclic ADC produces a residue after the final cycle, and the following delta-sigma ADC converts it to a digital value (the residue is then noise-shaped). The ADC output combines the digital outputs of the cyclic ADC and the delta-sigma ADC so as to achieve high resolution. The delta-sigma ADC can be implemented simply with continuous-time analog circuitry. We describe the overall ADC architecture and operation, show simulation results, as well as features such as its potential for reconfiguration and one of ADC architecture candidates with good tradeoff for high resolution, medium speed and small power.

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Shamsi ◽  
Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam

Power consumption and bandwidth are two of the most important parameters in design of low power wideband modulators as power consumption is growing with the increase in bandwidth. In this study, a multi bit wideband low-power continuous time feed forward quadrature delta sigma modulator (CT-FF-QDSM) is designed for WLAN receiver applications by eliminating adders from modulator structure. In this method, a real modulator is designed and its excess loop delay (ELD) is compensated, then, it is converted into a quadrature structure by applying the complex coefficient to loop filter. Complex coefficients are extracted by the aid of a genetic algorithm to further improve signal to noise ratio (SNR) for bandwidth. One of the disadvantages of CT-FF-QDSM is the adders of loop filters which are power hungry and reduce the effective loop gain. Therefore, the adders have been eliminated while the transfer function is intact in the final modulator. The system level SNR of the proposed modulator is 62.53[Formula: see text]dB using OSR of 12. The circuit is implemented in CMOSTSMC180nm technology. The circuit levels SNR and power consumption are 54[Formula: see text]dB and 13.5[Formula: see text]mW, respectively. Figure of Merit (FOM) obtained from the proposed modulator is about 0.824 (pj/conv) which is improved (by more than 40%) compared to the previous designs.


Author(s):  
Eka Fitrah Pribadi ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Pandey ◽  
Paul C.-P. Chao

Abstract A high-resolution, low offset delta-sigma analog to digital converter for detecting photoplethysmography (PPG) signal is presented in this study. The PPG signal is a bio-optical signal incorporated with heart functionality and located in the range of 0.1–10 Hz. The location to get PPG signal is on a pulsating artery. Thus the delta-sigma analog-to-digital (DS ADC) converter is designed specifically in that range. However, the DS ADC circuitry suffers from 1/f noise under 10 Hz frequency range. A chopper based operational amplifier is implemented in DS ADC to push the 1/f noise into high-frequency noise. The dc offset of the operational amplifier is also pushed to the high-frequency region. The DS ADC circuitry consists of a second-order continuous-time delta-sigma modulator. The delta-sigma modulator circuitry is designed and simulated using TSMC 180 nm technology. The continuous-time delta-sigma modulator active area layout is 746μm × 399 μm and fabricated using TSMC 180 nm technology. It operates in 100 Hz bandwidth and 4096 over-sampling ratios. The SFDR of the circuit is above 70 dB. The power consumption of the delta-sigma modulator is 35.61μW. The simulation is performed in three different kinds of corner, SS, TT, and FF corner, to guarantee the circuitry works in different conditions.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 1968
Author(s):  
Juyong Lee ◽  
Seungjun Lee ◽  
Kihyun Kim ◽  
Hyungil Chae

In this study, a pipelined noise-shaping successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (PLNS-SAR ADC) structure was proposed to achieve high resolution and to be free from comparator design requirements. The inter-stage amplifier and integrator of the PLNS-SAR ADC were implemented through a ring amplifier with high gain and speed. The ring amplifier was designed to improve power efficiency and be tolerant to process–voltage–temperature (PVT) variation, and uses a single loop common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuit. By processing residual signals with a single ring amplifier, power efficiency can be maximized, and a low-power system with 30% lower power consumption than that of a conventional PLNS-SAR ADC is implemented. With a high-gain ring amplifier, noise leakage is greatly suppressed, and a structure can be implemented that is tolerant of mismatches between the analog loop and digital correction filters. The measured signal to noise distortion ratio (SNDR) is 70 dB for a 5.15 MHz bandwidth (BW) at a 72 MS/s sampling rate (Fs) with an oversampling ratio (OSR) of 7, and the power consumption is 2.4 mW. The (= SNDR + BW/Power) is 163.5 dB. The proposed structure in this study can achieve high resolution and wide BW with good power efficiency, without a filter calibration process, through the use of a ring amplifier in the PLNS-SAR ADC.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.16) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Anshu Gupta ◽  
Lalita Gupta ◽  
R K. Baghel

A second-order sigma delta modulator that uses an operational transconductance amplifier as integrator and latch comparator as quantizer. The proposed technique where a low power high gain OTA is used as integrator and another circuit called dynamic latch comparator with two tail transistors and two controlling switches are used to achieve high speed, low power and high resolution in second order delta sigma modulator. It enhances the power efficiency and compactness of the modulator by implementing these blocks as sub modules. A second order modulator has been designed to justify the effectiveness of the proposed design. Technology 180nm CMOS process is used to implement complete second order continuous time sigma delta modulator.  We introduce the sub threshold three stage OTA, which is a way of achieving low distortion operation with input referred noise at 1 KHz is equal to the 2.2647pV/   and with low power consumption of 296.72nW.  A high-speed, low-voltage and a low-power Double-Tail dynamic comparator is also proposed. The proposed structure is contrasted with past dynamic comparators. In this paper, the comparator’s delay will be investigated and systematic analysis are inferred. a novel comparator using two tail transistor is proposed, here circuitry of a customized comparator having two tail is changed for low power dissipation and also it operates fast at little supply voltages. By maintaining the outline and by including couple of transistors, during the regeneration strengthening of positive feedback can be maintained, this results in amazingly diminished delay parameter. It is investigated that in proposed design structure of comparator using two tail transistors, power consumption is reduced and delay time is also diminished to a great extent. The proposed comparator is having maximum clock frequency that is possibly expanded up to 1GHz at voltages of 1 V whereas it is dissipating 10.99 µW of power, individually. By using sub threshold three stage OTA and dynamic standard two tail latch comparator, designed second order sigma delta ADC will consume 29.95µW of power.


2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 2625-2638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon Hwee Leow ◽  
Howard Tang ◽  
Zhuo Chao Sun ◽  
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