Abstract:
A circuit includes a first amplifying stage, a noise extraction circuit and a noise cancellation circuit. The first amplifying stage is arranged for receiving an input signal to generate an amplified input signal. The noise extraction circuit is coupled to the first amplifying stage, and is arranged for receiving at least the amplified input signal to generate a noise signal associated with noise components of the amplified input signal. The noise cancellation circuit is coupled to the first amplifying stage and the noise extraction circuit, and is arranged for cancelling noise components of the amplified input signal by using the noise signal generated by the noise extraction circuit, to generate a noise-cancelled amplified input signal.
Abstract:
A delta-sigma modulator includes a receiving circuit, a loop filter module, a quantizer, a delta-sigma truncator, a digital filter module, and an output circuit. The receiving circuit is arranged for receiving a feedback signal and an input signal to generate a summation signal. The loop filter module is arranged for filtering the summation signal to generate a filtered summation signal. The quantizer is arranged for generating a first digital signal according to the filtered summation signal. The delta-sigma truncator is arranged for truncating the first digital signal to generate a second digital signal. The digital filter module is arranged for filtering the first digital signal and the second digital signal to generate a filtered first digital signal and a filtered second digital signal, respectively. The output circuit is arranged for generating an output signal according to the filtered first digital signal and the filtered second digital signal.
Abstract:
A continuous-time ΣΔ-ADC (1) is disclosed. It comprises a sampled quantizer (5) arranged to generate samples y(n) of a digital output signal of the ΔΣ-ADC (1) at sample instants nT, where n is an integer sequence index and T is a sampling period, based on an analog input signal to the quantizer (5). Furthermore, the ΔΣ-ADC (1) comprises one or more DACs (10a-b), each arranged to generate an analog feedback signal based on the samples of the digital output signal generated by the sampled quantizer (5). Moreover, the ΔΣ-ADC (1) comprises a continuous-time analog network (20) arranged to generate the analog input signal to the quantizer (5) based on the feedback signal(s) from the one or more DACs (10a-b) and an analog input signal to the ΔΣ-ADC (1). At least one DAC (10b) of the one or more DACs (10b) comprises two switched-capacitor DACs (40, 50) arranged to operate on the same input but with a mutual delay in time. A corresponding radio receiver circuit (100), a corresponding integrated circuit (200), and a corresponding radio communication apparatus (300, 400) are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A sigma-delta modulator (400) 400, 500, 600) for converting an input signal (X(s)) (X(s)) to a quantized output signal (Y(z)) (Y(z)), in which a feedback loop is provided between a filter (402) and a quantizer (403) of the modulator, the feedback loop configured to reduce quantization errors from the modulator by filtering and subtracting quantization noise fed back to an input of the quantizer (403).
Abstract:
In a receiver two sigma delta modulators (13, 19) are used to convert a pair of analog quatradure signals into digital quadrature signals. In such sigma delta modulators the quantisation noise is shifted into a frequency region in which no signal is present. In order to improve the noise reduction without increasing the order of the filters (15, 17) a cross coupling between the filters (15, 17) is made. Due to this cross coupling it is possible to obtain complex poles and zeros in the noise transfer function which do not have to appear in complex conjugate pairs, resulting in an increase of the noise suppression in one specified frequency range.
Abstract:
A circuit includes a first amplifying stage, a noise extraction circuit and a noise cancellation circuit. The first amplifying stage is arranged for receiving an input signal to generate an amplified input signal. The noise extraction circuit is coupled to the first amplifying stage, and is arranged for receiving at least the amplified input signal to generate a noise signal associated with noise components of the amplified input signal. The noise cancellation circuit is coupled to the first amplifying stage and the noise extraction circuit, and is arranged for cancelling noise components of the amplified input signal by using the noise signal generated by the noise extraction circuit, to generate a noise-cancelled amplified input signal.
Abstract:
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for converting a continuous-time, continuously variable signal into a sampled and quantized signal. According to one representative embodiment, an apparatus includes multiple quantization-noise-shaping continuous-time filters, each in a separate processing branch and having an adder that includes multiple inputs and an output; an input signal is coupled to one of the inputs of the adder; the output of the adder is coupled to one of the inputs of the adder through a first filter; and the output of a sampling/quantization circuit in the same processing branch is coupled to one of the inputs of the adder through a second filter, with the second filter having a different transfer function than the first filter.
Abstract:
An Nth-order shaping coder with multi-level quantization and dithered quantizer. The coder (500) is inherently stable and produces a purely white quantization error spectrum. In one exemplary embodiment, the coder is first order, and an improved dither scheme is employed including applying a M-times, e.g. M=2, sample-and-hold to the dither sequence, effectively holding a constant dither for multiple clock cycles. This advantageously results in a reduction of instances where the quantizer jumps over two quantization intervals in one clock cycle without first passing through zero for one clock cycle. Methods for implementing the shaping coder are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Bei einem interpolativen Analog/Digital-Umsetzer für Bandpaß-Signale, bestehend aus zwei Stufen, ist vorgesehen, daß in der ersten Stufe (Analogteil) die Bandpaß-Integration nur im Rückkopplungszweig durchgeführt wird, und die so unterlassene Bandpaß-Integration des Eingangssignals in der zweiten Stufe (Digitalteil) durchgeführt wird.