Noise Weighting in the Design of Delta Sigma Modulators (With a Psychoacoustic Coder as an Example)

作者：Callegari Sergio^*; Bizzarri Federico

来源：IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II-Express Briefs, 2013, 60(11): 756-760.

DOI：10.1109/TCSII.2013.2281892

• Delta-sigma modulation
• noise shaping
• optimization
• psychoacoustics

A design flow for Delta Sigma modulators is illustrated, allowing quantization noise to be shaped according to an arbitrary weighting profile. Based on finite-impulse-response noise transfer functions, possibly with high order, the flow is best suited for digital architectures. This work builds on a recent proposal in which the modulator is matched to the reconstruction filter, showing that this type of optimization can benefit a wide range of applications in which noise (including in-band noise) is known to have a different impact at different frequencies. The designs of a multiband modulator, a modulator avoiding dc noise, and an audio modulator capable of distributing quantization artifacts according to a psychoacoustic model are discussed as examples. A software toolbox is provided as a general design aid and to replicate the proposed results.

• 出版日期2013-11