An Enhanced Dual-Path Delta Sigma A/D Converter

作者：Nishida Yoshio^*; Hamashita Koichi; Temes Gabor C

来源：IEICE - Transactions on Electronics, 2010, E93C(6): 884-892.

DOI：10.1587/transele.E93.C.884

• ADC
• delta-sigma modulation
• DWA
• switched-capacitor circuits
• CMOS

This paper presents an enhanced dual-path delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter. Compared with other architectures, the enhanced architecture increases the noise shaping order without any instability problems and displays analog complexity equivalent to the multi-stage noise shaping architecture. Our delta-sigma converter is based on this new architecture. It employs not only doubly-differential structure to reduce common-mode errors in the system-level but also delayed-feed-in structure to mitigate the timing constraint of the feedback signal. Regarding the circuit implementation, the first-order enhancement of the quantization noise shaping is achieved via the use of a switched capacitor circuit technique. The circuit is incorporated into the active adder in a low-distortion structure. The supporting clock generation circuit that provides additional phases of clocks with the enhancement block is also implemented in the CMOS logic gates. A digital dynamic element matching circuit (i.e., segmented data-weighted-average circuit) is designed to reduce mismatch errors caused by the feedback DAC of modulator. A test chip, fabricated in a 0.18-mu m CMOS process, provides a signal-to-noise+distortion ratio (SNDR) of 75-dB for a 1.0-MHz signal bandwidth clocked at 40-MHz. The 2nd harmonic is -101 dB and the 3rd harmonic is -94 dB when a -4.5-dB 100-kHz input signal is applied.

• 出版日期2010-6