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Improved low-distortion sigma–delta ADC with DWA for WLAN standards

Li Di, Yang Yintang, Zhu Zhangming, Shi Lichun, Wu Xiaofeng and Wang Jiangan

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Abstract: An improved low distortion sigma–delta ADC (analog-to-digital converter) for wireless local area network standards is presented. A feed-forward MASH 2-2 multi-bit cascaded sigma–delta ADC is adopted; however, this work shows a much better performance than the ADCs which have been presented to date by adding a feedback factor in the second stage to improve the performance of the in-band SNDR (signal to noise and distortion ratio), using 4-bit ADCs in both stages to minimize the quantization noise. Data weighted averaging technology is therefore used to decrease the mismatch noise induced by the 4-bit DACs, which improves the SFDR (spurious free dynamic range) of the ADC. The modulator has been implemented by a 0.18 μm CMOS process and operates at a single 1.8 V supply voltage. Experimental results show that for a 1.25 MHz @ –6 dBFS input signal at 160 MHz sampling frequency, the improved ADC with all non-idealities considered achieves a peak SNDR of 80.9 dB and an SFDR of 87 dB, and the effective number of bits is 13.15 bits.

Key words: WLAN low distortion sigma–delta ADC data weighted averaging

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    Received: 18 August 2015 Revised: 09 October 2009 Online: Published: 01 February 2010

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      Li Di, Yang Yintang, Zhu Zhangming, Shi Lichun, Wu Xiaofeng, Wang Jiangan. Improved low-distortion sigma–delta ADC with DWA for WLAN standards[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2010, 31(2): 025011. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/31/2/025011 Li D, Yang Y T, Zhu Z M, Shi L C, Wu X F, Wang J G. Improved low-distortion sigma–delta ADC with DWA for WLAN standards[J]. J. Semicond., 2010, 31(2): 025011. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/31/2/025011.Export: BibTex EndNote
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      Li Di, Yang Yintang, Zhu Zhangming, Shi Lichun, Wu Xiaofeng, Wang Jiangan. Improved low-distortion sigma–delta ADC with DWA for WLAN standards[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2010, 31(2): 025011. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/31/2/025011

      Li D, Yang Y T, Zhu Z M, Shi L C, Wu X F, Wang J G. Improved low-distortion sigma–delta ADC with DWA for WLAN standards[J]. J. Semicond., 2010, 31(2): 025011. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/31/2/025011.
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      Improved low-distortion sigma–delta ADC with DWA for WLAN standards

      doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/31/2/025011
      • Received Date: 2015-08-18
      • Accepted Date: 2009-06-13
      • Revised Date: 2009-10-09
      • Published Date: 2010-01-27

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