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Delay Error Shaping in ?S Modulators Using Time-Interleaved High Resolution Quantizers

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Michael Pietzko *
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Jonathan Ungethüm
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John G. Kauffman
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Maurits Ortmanns
DOI:10.1109/TCSI.2023.3269573delete
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As wideband Delta-Sigma-Modulators (DSMs) are restricted in oversampling ratio (OSR), and low OSR reduces the benefit of higher order loop filters, the increase of the internal resolution is an obvious way to achieve high signal-to-quantization-noise ratio (SQNR). State-of-the-art implementations restrict the internal resolution to mostly 4-6 bits, as efficient QTZs with higher resolution add excessive delay into the DSM. Multi-step or time-interleaved-quantizer (TI-QTZs) are an effective way to enhance resolution at high sampling rate, but the resulting latency in excess of one clock cycle usually prohibits their usage in DSMs. This paper proposes a new architecture to employ high resolution multi-step QTZs, such as TI SAR or pipeline ADCs. In the proposed architecture, an excess loop delay (ELD) of several clock cycles in the LSBs is purposefully allowed. While the MSBs are conventionally ELD-compensated, the LSBs are not. The resulting error is corrected in the digital domain. It is shown that matching requirements are relaxed by first-order shaping. The idea is also applicable to a Leslie-Singh and noise-coupling architecture, which are compared to the proposed architecture in an extensive system-level analysis and simulation. Depending on the target application, an advantageous design recommendation can be given based on the presented results depending on OSR, internal bitwidth and expected analog-digital matching.
Keywords:
Delays
Clocks
Digital filters
Wideband
Transfer functions
Signal resolution
Quantization (signal)
ADC
DSM
CT
ELD
SAR
multibit quantization
wideband
TI

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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers cover
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers
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