• DocumentCode
    2262135
  • Title

    Processing of signals using level-crossing sampling

  • Author

    Vezyrtzis, Christos ; Tsividis, Yannis

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    24-27 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    2293
  • Lastpage
    2296
  • Abstract
    This paper treats signals encoded using level crossing sampling. Such encoding makes possible a variable sampling rate; fast-varying parts of the signal are sampled fast, while slowly-varying parts of the signal are sampled slowly. We propose a technique for processing such signals, which results in an output with very low error. With 4 bits of amplitude quantization, the signal-to-error ratio is better than 100 dB.
  • Keywords
    quantisation (signal); signal processing; amplitude quantization; level-crossing sampling; signal-to-error ratio; variable sampling rate; Encoding; Frequency response; Power dissipation; Quantization; Remote sensing; Sampling methods; Signal processing; Signal resolution; Signal sampling; Very large scale integration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3827-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3828-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118257
  • Filename
    5118257