Digital correction of non-ideal amplifier effects in the MASH modulator

Author

Davis, Alan J. ; Fischer, Godi

Author_Institution

Weapon Syst. Dept., Naval Underwater Syst. Center, Newport, RI, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

Firstpage

600

Abstract

An approach to remove the effects of amplifier finite gain and C-ratio mismatches in the MASH sigma-delta modulator is presented. By adding a digital correction term to the output of the digital noise cancellation filter, the parasitic quantization noise terms can be removed for all but the final stage, eliminating the intermediate quantization noise terms due to non-ideal integrators. Using this technique, the MASH can approach the performance of an ideal third-order modulator. We have confirmed an SNR+THD of 105.6 dB via a behavioral simulation of the MASH using an amplifier open-loop gain of only 500 and capacitor matching errors as large as of 1.0%

Keywords

circuit noise; error analysis; harmonic distortion; modulators; sigma-delta modulation; C-ratio mismatches; MASH modulator; SNR; THD; amplifier finite gain; digital correction; digital noise cancellation filter; nonideal amplifier effects; nonideal integrators; parasitic quantization noise terms removal; sigma-delta modulator; Bandwidth; Capacitors; Circuit noise; Delta-sigma modulation; Digital modulation; Dynamic range; Filters; Multi-stage noise shaping; Noise cancellation; Quantization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1998. ISCAS '98. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4455-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1998.704586

Filename

704586