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http://dx.doi.org/10.7471/ikeee.2018.22.4.1025

Design of 4th Order ΣΔ modulator employing a low power reconfigurable operational amplifier  

Lee, Dong-Hyun (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, INHA University)
Yoon, Kwang-Sub (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, INHA University)
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Journal of IKEEE / v.22, no.4, 2018 , pp. 1025-1030 More about this Journal
Abstract
The proposed modulator is designed by utilizing a conventional structure employing time division technique to realize the 4th order delta-sigma modulator using one op-amp. In order to reduce the influence of KT/C noise, the capacitance in the first and second integrators reused was chosen to be 20pF and capacitance of third and fourth integrators was designed to be 1pF. The stage variable technique in the low power reconfigurable op-amp was used to solve the stability issue due to different capacitance loads for the reduction of KT/C noise. This technique enabled the proposed modulator to reduce the power consumption of 15% with respect to the conventional one. The proposed modulator was fabricated with 0.18um CMOS N-well 1 poly 6 metal process and consumes 305uW at supply voltage of 1.8V. The measurement results demonstrated that SNDR, ENOB, DR, FoM(Walden), and FoM(Schreier) were 66.3 dB, 10.6 bits, 83 dB, 98 pJ/step, and 142.8 dB at the sampling frequency of 256kHz, oversampling ratio of 128, clock frequency of 1.024 MHz, and input frequency of 250 Hz, respectively.
Keywords
Reconfigurable; Delta-sigma modulator; bio-signal; low power; stage variable operational amplifier;
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