摘要:
Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can have errors which can affect their performance. To improve the performance, many techniques have been used to compensate or correct for the errors. When the ADCs are being implemented with sub-micron technology, ADCs can be readily and easily equipped with an on-chip microprocessor for performing a variety of digital functions. The on-chip microprocessor and any suitable digital circuitry can implement functions for reducing those errors, enabling certain undesirable artifacts to be reduced, and providing a flexible platform for a highly configurable ADC. The on-chip microprocessor is particularly useful for a randomized time-interleaved ADC. Moreover, a randomly sampling ADC can be added in parallel to a main ADC for calibration purposes. Furthermore, the overall system can include an efficient implementation for correcting errors in an ADC.
摘要:
A sigma-delta modulator includes an adder, a filter, a quantizer, and a clock rate controller. The adder receives an input signal and an output signal to generate a summation signal. The filter is coupled to the adder and filters the summation signal to generate a filtered signal. The quantizer is coupled to the filter as well as the adder and quantizes the filtered signal to generate the output signal according to a first clock signal. The clock rate controller is coupled to the quantizer and generates the first clock signal, wherein a frequency of the first clock signal is variable.
摘要:
An implantable medical device, such as a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator, uses digital signal processing channels to process sensed time varying signals representing cardiac activity. Each digital signal processing channels includes a sigma-Delta analog-to-digital converter. The clock rate of each sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter is controlled as a function of a signal detection threshold for its respective digital signal processing channel. For higher threshold levels, a reduced clock rate for the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter results in reduced power consumption and longer battery life.
摘要:
A programmable Sigma-Delta Modulator (SDM) includes a first input to select an oversampling rate (OSR), which has a corresponding resonator coefficient value to provide an optimal notch in the Noise Transfer Function (NTF).
摘要:
A programmable sample rate ADC includes a delta sigma modulator for producing a digital signal, and a programmable decimation filter, that includes X stages of integration, a down-sampling stage for down-sampling by a factor of N, and Y stages of differentiation. The programmable sample rate ADC produces a digital output signal at a substantially constant frequency.
摘要:
The present invention is intended to fully remove a carrier-frequency component despite a compact low-cost configuration. An A/D conversion circuit with a carrier frequency removing feature includes: an A/D converter including a voltage comparator that compares a first signal with a feedback signal and a voltage feedback circuit that produces the feedback signal; a one-input N-output demultiplexer that receives the feedback signal; N integrators that calculate the respective integrals of N output signals of the demultiplexer; an N-input one-output multiplexer that receives the outputs of the N respective integrators; a subtractor that produces a difference between an analog signal and the output signal of the multiplexer; an amplifier that amplifies the output signal of the subtractor to produce the first signal; and a switching control circuit that cyclically switches the input terminals of the multiplexer and the output terminals of the demultiplexer synchronously with a carrier wave.
摘要:
On a first stage of the delta sigma type AD converter for quantizing an input analog signal and converting it to an output digital signal. The computing element adds a feedback signal from a second stage DA converter and subtracts a feedback signal in which the output of the delay unit is multiplied at a coefficient null with a coefficient buffer and a feedback signal from the delay unit, the input analog signal is output to a computing element on a post stage, and quantization is executed with a predetermined sampling frequency by a quantizing element so as to convert it to an output digital signal. The frequency characteristic of quantization noise Q(Z) to be added by the quantizing element can be adjusted with the coefficient null, so that the relationship between the sampling frequency and the input frequency can be set up appropriately.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for analog to digital conversion using sigma-delta modulation of the temporal spacing between digital samples. The method and apparatus of the present invention provides for sigma-delta modulation of the time base such that errors produced by non-uniform sampling are frequency-shaped to a region (i.e., shifted to higher frequencies) where they can be removed by conventional filtering techniques. In one embodiment, digital data is interpolated under control of a sigma-delta modulated frequency selection signal that represents, on average, the data rate of the digital data to be output by the converter and then decimated by a fixed ratio. The frequency selection signal is modulated using an n-th order m-bit sigma-delta modulator. Data thus emerges from the interpolation/decimation process at the sample rate selected by the n-th order m-bit sigma-delta modulator. The method and apparatus converts the data rate of an incoming digital data stream from an ADC to the data rate determined by the n-th order m-bit sigma-delta modulator.
摘要:
An input stage circuit for a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter circuit receives a digital-to-analog converter generated feedback signal and an analog current input signal to generate a difference signal applied to an integrator circuit. A single bit quantization circuit quantizes an output of the integrator circuit to generate a bit signal that is applied to an input of the digital-to-analog converter. The input stage circuit includes a switched input capacitor controlled by first and second, non-overlapping, clock signals.
摘要:
Chopping techniques that suppress fold-back into the signal band and spreads the offset across the spectrum are described. By using various techniques, chopping may be performed with a variable frequency clock to spread the offset across the signal spectrum. Spreading the offset across the signal spectrum means that there are no longer large spurious tones at a few frequencies.