Title
Ultra low-FOM high-precision ΔΣ modulators with fully-clocked SO and zero static power quantizers
Abstract
In this paper, two high-precision switched-opamp (SO) based ΔΣ modulators with ultra low figure-of-merit (FOM) are introduced respectively for bio-medical and audio applications. To save 50% power, both modulators adopt novel fully-clocked current mirror SOs with new bias circuits especially designed for SO. Besides, several measures are proposed separately in two modulators to ensure high performances. Both circuitries are implemented in 0.18μm CMOS. The modulator-I, for bio-medical applications, employs high density MOSCAPs to reduce chip area. Also, an innovative zero static power quantizer using MOSCAP-strings is developed to save up to 96% power and 69% area than traditional structure. With only 13μW power consumption at 1.0V supply voltage, it achieves 85dB peak-SNDR, 44.7fJ/conv.-step FOM for 10 kHz bandwidth. In the modulator-II, for audio applications, a novel 17-level scheme consisting of only nine comparators and two capacitor-strings is introduced to remove static power completely and save 40% chip area over the traditional quantizer. In addition, a dual cycle shift (DCS) DWA technique is introduced here to suppress in-band tone effectively. The modulator-II achieves 92dB peak-SNDR and 35.6fJ/conv.-step FOM with only 58μW power consumption at 0.9V supply voltage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CICC.2011.6055401
CICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
high-precision switched-opamp,audio applications,voltage 0.9 v,zero static power quantizers,high-precision δς modulators,dual cycle shift dwa,delta-sigma modulation,voltage 1 v,size 0.18 mum,power 13 muw,cmos digital integrated circuits,biomedical applications,zero static power quantizer,cmos,power 58 muw,ultralow figure-of-merit,figure of merit,delta sigma modulation,chip
Comparator,Current mirror,Computer science,Voltage,Control engineering,Delta-sigma modulation,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Chip,Bandwidth (signal processing),Electronic circuit,Electrical engineering
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
0886-5930
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-0222-8
2
0.42
References 
Authors
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
jian1145.46
Xiaobo Wu2113.15
Menglian Zhao32211.35
Rui Fan48819.96
Hanqing Wang561.36
Xiaofen Ma620.42
Bill Liu71713.20