IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II,
vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 1049-1053, Nov. 2016.
A Mostly-Digital PWM-Based Delta Sigma ADC with
an Inherently Matched Multi-Bit Quantizer/DAC
Yousof Mortazavi,
Wooyoung Jung,
Brian L. Evans and
Arjang Hassibi
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712 USA
yousof.mortazavi@gmail.com -
wooyoung73@utexas.edu -
bevans@ece.utexas.edu -
arjang.hassibi@gmail.com
Draft
Abstract
A mostly-digital PWM-based delta-sigma ADC is proposed.
This system takes advantage of the duration pulses, rather than
voltage or current, as the analog operand used in its closed-loop
operation.
Therefore, circuits that process the pulses are digital in nature
and improve with scaling.
Furthermore, the architecture allows inherently matched multi-bit
quantizer/DAC blocks by taking advantage of delay lines reusable
in both quantization and DAC operation.
A second novelty of this architecture is the modualtor's adapative
excess delay, that synchronizes the asynchronous loop with an
external reference clock.
This mitigates the problems associated with non-uniform sampling.
A first order 3-bit prototype of this architecture is presented.
The core occupies an area of 0.0275 mm2 in 0.18 um
CMOS process.
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