The aim of this book is to expand and improve upon the existing
knowledge on discrete-time 1-bit look-ahead sigma-delta modulation in
general, and to come to a solution for the above mentioned specific
issues arising from 1-bit sigma-delta modulation for SA-CD. In order to
achieve this objective an analysis is made of the possibilities for
improving the performance of digital noise-shaping look-ahead solutions.
On the basis of the insights obtained from the analysis, several novel
generic 1-bit look-ahead solutions that improve upon the
state-of-the-art will be derived and their performance will be evaluated
and compared. Finally, all the insights are combined with the knowledge
of the SA-CD lossless data compression algorithm to come to a
specifically for SA-CD optimized look-ahead design.