• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.800-807
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• 2006

To enhance the conversion speed more fast, we separate the determination process of MSB and LSB with the two independent ADC circuits of the Incremental Sigma Delta ADC. After the 1st Incremental Sigma Delta ADC conversion finished, the 2nd Incremental Sigma Delta ADC conversion start while the 1st Incremental Sigma Delta ADC work on the next input. By determining the MSB and the LSB independently, the ADC conversion speed is improved by two times better than the conventional Extended Counting Incremental Sigma Delta ADC. In processing the 2nd Incremental Sigma Delta ADC, the inverting sample/hold circuit inverts the input the 2nd Incremental Sigma Delta ADC, which is the output of switched capacitor integrator within the 1st Incremental Sigma Delta ADC block. The increased active area is relatively small by the added analog circuit, because the digital circuit area is more large than analog. In this paper, a 14 bit Extended Counting Incremental Sigma-Delta ADC is implemented in $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS process with a single 2.5 V supply voltage. The conversion speed is about 150 Ksamples/sec at a clock rate of 25 MHz. The 1 MSB is 0.02 V. The active area is $0.50\;x\;0.35mm^{2}$. The averaged power consumption is 1.7 mW.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.57-60
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• 2004

This paper presents multibit Sigma-Delta ADC using Leslie-Singh Structure to Improve nonlinearity of feedback loop. 4-bit flash ADC for multibit Quantization in Sigma Delta modulator offers the following advantages such as lower quantization noise, more accurate white-noise level and more stability over single quantization. For the feedback paths consisting of DAC, the DAC element should have a high matching requirement in order to maintain the linearity performance which can be obtained by the modulator with a multibit quantizer. Thus a Sigma-Delta ADC usually adds the dynamic element matching digital circuit within feedback loop. It occurs complexity of Sigma-Delta Circuit and increase of power dissipation. In this paper using the Leslie-Singh Structure for improving nonliearity of ADC. This structure operate at low oversampling ratio but is difficult to achieve high resolution. So in this paper propose improving loop filter for single-bit feedback multi-bit quantization Sigma-Delta ADC. It obtained 94.3dB signal to noise ratio over 615kHz bandwidth, and 62mW power dissipation at a sampling frequency of 19.6MHz. This Sigma Delta ADC is fabricated in 0.25um CMOS technology with 2.5V supply voltage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.1222-1225
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• 2004

This paper presents multibit Sigma-Delta ADC using noise-shaped dynamic element matching(DEM). 5-bit flash ADC for multibit quantization in Sigma Delta modulator offers the following advantages such as lower quantization noise, more accurate white-noise level and more stability over single quantization. For the feedback paths consisting of DAC, the DAC element should have a high matching requirement in order to maintain the linearity performance which can be obtained by the modulator with a multibit quantizer. The DEM algorithm is implemented in such a way as to minimize additional delay within the feedback loop of the modulator Using this algorithm, distortion spectra from DAC linearity errors are shaped. Sigma Delta ADC achieves 82dB signal to noise ratio over 615H7z bandwidth, and 62mW power dissipation at a sampling frequency of 19.6MHz. This Sigma Delta ADC is designed to use 0.25um CMOS technology with 2.5V supply voltage and verified by HSPICE simulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.26-32
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• 2017

This paper presents a low power and high resolution incremental delta-sigma ADC that utilizes a passive integrator instead of an opamp-based active integrator. Opamp is a power-hungry block that involves tight design tradeoffs. To avoid the use of active integrator, the s-domain characteristic of an active integrator is first analyzed. Based on the analysis, an active integrator with low gain design is proposed as an alternative design method. To save power even more aggressively, a passive integrator with no static current is proposed. A 1st order single-bit incremental delta-sigma ADC using the proposed passive integrator is implemented in a 65nm CMOS process. Transistor-level simulation shows that the ADC consumes only 0.6uW under 1.2V supply while achieving SNDR of 71dB with 22kHz bandwidth. The estimated total power consumption including digital filter is 6.25uW, and resulting power efficiency is on a par with state-of-the-art A/D converters.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.438-445
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• 2017

This paper presents a low-power high-resolution band-pass ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ ADC for accelerometer applications. The proposed band-pass ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ ADC consists of a high-performance 6-th order feed-forward ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ modulator with 1-bit quantization and a low-power, area-efficient digital filter. The ADC is fabricated in 180 nm 1P6M mixed-signal CMOS process with a die area of $5mm^2$. This high-resolution ADC got 90 dB peak signal to noise plus distortion ratio (SNDR) and 96 dB dynamic range (DR) over 4 kHz bandwidth, while the intermediate frequency (IF) is shifting from 100 KHz to 200 KHz. The power dissipation of the chip is 5.6 mW under 1.8 V (digital)/3.3 V (analog) power supply.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.5
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• pp.122-131
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• 1999

저주파의 아날로그 신호를 디지털 신호로 변환하기 위해 sigma-delta 아날로그-디지털 변환기의 이용이 용이하다. 이 변환기는 변조기와 디지털 필터로 구성되는데 본 논문에서는 변조기에 대해서만 언급한다. 모델링을 통해 14비트 분해능을 갖는 2차 sigma-delta 변조기를 설계하기 위한 변조기의 구성요소 즉 연산 증폭기, 적분기, 내부 ADC 및 DAC의 최대 허용 에러 범위를 규정하였으며, 이를 토대로 연산증폭기, 2비트 ADC 및 DAC 등을 설계·검증하고, 이들을 서로 연결하여 2차 sigma-delta 변조기를 구성하였다. 3비트 ADC의 기준전압을 조절하여 변조기 성능 향상을 도모하였으며, 내부 DAC를 축전기 및 간단한 제어회로로 구성하여 비선형성 에러를 최소화하였다. 설계된 각각의 구성요소들은 모델링에서 정의된 에러 범위를 모두 만족하였으며, 전체 변조기는87㏈의 입력범위와 87㏈의 최대 신호 대 잡음 비를 가졌다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.2649-2655
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• 2015

While the oversampling sigma-delta ADCs are known to have high resolution, they often suffer from SNDR losses when operated at a very high data clock. This paper presents a design and implementation of a decimation filter that provides minimum distortion at passband for high-speed sigma-delta ADC. The proposed digital decimation filter employs a butterworth structure. To evaluate the performance of the proposed decimation filter, we implemented a 1-bit, third-order, OSR=64 sigma-delta modulator followed by the proposed decimation filter. Using the simulation ad measurement, we compared the performance of the proposed decimation filter with a conventional CIC(cascaded integrator comb) decimation filter, which is commonly used in most sigma-delta ADCs. The measurement results show that the proposed decimation filter presents substantially lower distortion at passband and thus can provide must higher SNDR.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.1310-1318
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• 1998

Sigma-delta converter is frequently used for conyerting low-frequency anglog to digital signal. The converter consists of a modulator and a digital filer, but our work is concentrated on the modulator. In this works, to design second-order sigma-dalta modulator with 14bit resolution, we define maximumerror limits of each components (operational smplifier, integrator, internal ADC, and DAC) of modulator. It is first performed modeling of an ideal second-order sigma-delta modulator. This is then modified by adding the non-ideal factors such as limit of op-amp output swing, the finit DC gain of op-amp slew rate, the integrator gian error by the capacitor mismatch, the ADC error by the cmparator offset and the mismatch of resistor string, and the non-linear of DAC. From this modeling, as it is determined the specification of each devices requeired in design and the fabrication error limits, we can see the final performance of modulator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.405-408
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• 2015

While the oversampling sigma-delta ADCs are known to have high resolution, they often suffer from SNDR losses when operated at a very high data clock. This paper presents a design and implementation of a decimation filter that provides minimum distortion at passband for high-speed sigma-delta ADC. The proposed digital decimation filter employs a butterworth structure, which is a type of an IIR filter. To evaluate the performance of the proposed decimation filter, we implemented a 1-bit, third-order, OSR=64 sigma-delta modulator followed by the proposed decimation filter. Using the simulation ad measurement, we compared the performance of the proposed decimation filter with a conventional CIC(cascaded integrator comb) decimation filter, which is commonly used in most sigma-delta ADCs. The measurement results show that the proposed decimation filter presents substantially lower distortion at passband and thus can provide must higher SNDR.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.11-14
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• 2013

This paper describes the sigma-delta ADC/DAC digital block with two channels. The ADC block has comb filter and three half band filters. And the DAC block has 5th Cascaded-of-Integrators Feedback DSM. The ADC and DAC support I2S, RJ, LJ and selectable input data modes of 24bit, 20bit, and 16bit. It is fabricated with 0.35um Hynix standard CMOS cell library. The chip size is 3700*3700um. It has been verified using NC Verilog Simulator and Matlab Tool.