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A novel architecture of pseudorandom dithered MASH digital delta-sigma modulator with lower spur

Noori, S. A. S ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1142/S0218126616500729
  3. Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
  4. Abstract:
  5. A Digital Delta Sigma Modulator (DDSM) is a Finite State Machine (FSM); it is implemented using finite precision arithmetic units and the number of available states is finite. The DDSM always produces a periodic output signal when the input is constant. This paper proposes a novel method of applying periodic dither to a DDSM in order to obtain minimized spurious tones. The effects of adding the pseudorandom dither signal in different stages within the proposed Multi-Stage noise Shaping (MASH) modulator are expressed in the equations, and the results are compared. We present results regarding the periodicity of the quantization noise produced by a MASH modulator with a constant input and a pseudorandom dither signal. The performance is confirmed mathematically, and by simulation
  6. Keywords:
  7. Digital delta sigma modulator ; Pseudorandom dither ; Spurious tone ; Logic circuits ; Quantization (signal) ; Cycle length ; Delta sigma modulator ; Finite-precision arithmetic ; Multi stage noise shaping ; Novel architecture ; Pseudo random ; Quantization noise ; Modulators
  8. Source: Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers ; Volume 25, Issue 7 , 2016 ; 02181266 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218126616500729