A Low-Power Second-Order Two-Channel Time-Interleaved ΣΔ Modulator for Broadband Applications

作者：Yang, Xiao; Zhang, Hong^*; Chen, Guican

来源：IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS, 2009, E92C(6): 852-859.

DOI：10.1587/transele.E92.C.852

• Sigma Delta modulator
• time-interleaved
• channel mismatch
• folded noise

Time-interleaving is an efficient approach to increase the effective sampling rate of the Kappa Delta modulators, but time-interleaved (TI) Kappa Delta modulators are sensitive to channel mismatch, which causes the quantization noise folded back into the band of interest. To reduce the folded noise caused by the channel mismatch of two-channel TI Kappa Delta modulators, a low-power second-order two-channel TI Kappa Delta modulator is proposed. The noise transfer NTF) of the modulator is a band-pass filter. By using this band-pass NTF, the folded noised can be reduced. The entire modulator can be implemented by employing three op-amps, which is beneficial for power consumption. The circuit of implementation for the proposed modulator is designed in 0.18 mu m COMS technology. The proposed modulator can achieve a SNDR of 78.9 dB with a channel mismatch of 0.5% and a linear gradient mismatch of 0.4% for unity sampling capacitors. Monte Carlo simulation is done with a random Gaussian mismatch of 0.4% standard deviation for all capacitors, resulting in an average SNDR of 80.5 dB. It is indicated that the proposed TI modulator is insensitive to the channel mismatch. The total power consumption is 19.5 mW from a 1.8 V supply.

• 出版日期2009-6
• 单位西安交通大学