Sigma Delta converters are a very popular choice for the A/D converter
in multi-standard, mobile and cellular receivers. Key A/D converter
specifications are high dynamic range, robustness, scalability,
low-power and low EMI. Robust Sigma Delta Converters presents a
requirement derivation of a Sigma Delta modulator applied in a receiver
for cellular and connectivity, and shows trade-offs between RF and ADC.
The book proposes to categorize these requirements in 5 quality
indicators which can be used to qualify a system, namely accuracy,
robustness, flexibility, efficiency and emission. In the book these
quality indicators are used to categorize Sigma Delta converter theory.
A few highlights on each of these quality indicators are;
- Quality indicators: provide a means to quantify system quality.
- Accuracy: introduction of new Sigma Delta Modulator architectures.
- Robustness: a significant extension on clock jitter theory based on
phase and error amplitude error models. Extension of the theory
describing aliasing in Sigma Delta converters for different types of
DACs in the feedback loop.
- Flexibility: introduction of a Sigma Delta converter bandwidth scaling
theory leading to very flexible Sigma Delta converters.
- Efficiency: introduction of new Figure-of-Merits which better reflect
performance-power trade-offs.
- Emission: analysis of Sigma Delta modulators on emission is not part
of the book
The quality indicators also reveal that, to exploit nowadays advanced IC
technologies, things should be done as much as possible digital up to a
limit where system optimization allows reducing system margins. At the
end of the book Sigma Delta converter implementations are shown which
are digitized on application-, architecture-, circuit- and layout-level.
Robust Sigma Delta Converters is written under the assumption that the
reader has some background in receivers and in A/D conversion.
