IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
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A wideband high-resolution time-interleaved sigma-delta modulator with VCO-based quantizer
Xiao ZhaoHuajun FangJun Xu
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2011 Volume 8 Issue 23 Pages 1972-1977

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A time-interleaved sigma-delta modulator with VCO-based quantizer for next generation wireless applications is presented. This proposed modulator firstly introduces the VCO-based multibit quantizer into the time-interleaved sigma-delta modulator, which can achieve the improvement of the signal bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio simultaneously. Moreover, these performance metrics have no adverse effects on power consumption, which is more suitable for wireless applications. A two-channel proposed modulator is taken as an example, and the simulation results show that the proposed modulator achieves a signal-to-noise ratio of 112.1dB over a 4.7MHz signal bandwidth with a clock frequency of 300MHz, which improves 100% in the range of signal bandwidth and 21dB in the signal-to-noise ratio compared to the conventional sigma-delta modulator with the same clock frequency and power consumption.

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