A Third-Order Low-Distortion Delta-Sigma Modulator with Opamp Sharing and Relaxed Feedback Path Timing

作者：Chao I Jen^*; Hsu Chung Lun; Liu Bin Da; Chang Soon Jyu; Huang Chun Yueh; Ting Hsin Wen

来源：IEICE - Transactions on Electronics, 2012, E95C(11): 1799-1809.

DOI：10.1587/transele.E95.C.1799

• delta-sigma modulator
• DSM
• opamp sharing
• relaxed dynamic element matching (DEM) timing

This paper proposes a third-order low-distortion delta-sigma modulator (DSM). The third-order noise shaping is achieved by a single opamp (excluding the quantizer). In the proposed DSM structure, the timing limitation on the quantizer and dynamic element matching (DEM) logic in a conventional low-distortion structure can be relaxed from a non-overlapping interval to half of the clock period. A cyclic analog-to-digital converter with a loading-free technique is utilized as a quantizer, which shares an opamp with the active adder. The signal transfer STF) is preserved as unity, which means that the integrators process only the quantization noise component. As a result, the opamp used for the integrators has lower requirements, as low-distortion DSMs, on slew rate, output swing, and power consumption. The proposed third-order DSM with a 4-bit cyclic-type quantizer is implemented in a 90-nm CMOS process. Under a sampling rate of 80 MHz and oversampling ratio of 16, simulation results show that an 81.97-dB signal-to-noise and distortion ratio and an 80-dB dynamic range are achieved with 4.17-mW total power consumption. The resulting figure of merit (EOM) is 81.5 fJ/conversion-step.

• 出版日期2012-11