Efficient Monte-Carlo thermal noise simulation for ΣΔ modulators

Author

Dong, Yikui ; Opal, Ajoy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1997

fDate

5-8 May 1997

Firstpage

499

Lastpage

502

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient Monte-Carlo noise simulation method of ΣΔ modulators in time domain. It can be used to simulate thermal noise, dithering and other noise effects. The simulation is at circuit level, where comparators, opamps, resistors, switches, capacitors and other linear elements are used as building blocks. This method has been implemented in SIMthermal, a simulator written in Fortran77. Three simulation examples are given

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; circuit analysis computing; comparators (circuits); digital simulation; integrated circuit noise; operational amplifiers; sigma-delta modulation; thermal noise; time-domain analysis; ΣΔ modulators; Fortran77; Monte-Carlo simulation; SIMthermal; capacitors; circuit level; comparators; dithering; linear elements; opamps; resistors; switches; thermal noise simulation; time domain simulation; Circuit noise; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Computational modeling; Delta modulation; Integrated circuit noise; Noise generators; Resistors; Switching circuits; Thermal resistance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1997., Proceedings of the IEEE 1997

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3669-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.1997.606676

Filename

606676