Abstract
A low power high performance Delta-Sigma modulator for portable measurement applications is presented. To reduce power consumption while maintaining high performance, a fully feedforward architecture with a comprehensive system-level design is implemented. As a key building block, a novel power efficient current mirror operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with a fast-settling less-error switched-capacitor common-mode feedback (SC CMFB) circuit is introduced, and the effects of both gain nonlinearity and 1/f noise of OTA are discussed. A new method to determine the voltage gain of an OTA is also proposed. The bottom terminal parasitic effect of poly-insulator-poly (PIP) capacitors is considered. About an extra 20% of capacitance is added to the total capacitance load. A power and area efficient resonator is adopted to realize a coefficient of 1/90 for 50% power and 75% area reduction compared with conventional designs. The chip is implemented in a low cost 0.35 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. The total power consumption is 20 μW with a 1.5 V supply, and the measured dynamic range (DR) is 95 dB over a 1 kHz bandwidth. Experimental results show that a high figure-of-merit (FOM) is achieved for the designed modulator in comparison with those from the literature.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 486-498 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Zhejiang University: Science C |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:‡ Corresponding author * Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60906012) and the Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) © Zhejiang University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Delta-Sigma modulator
- High performance
- Low power
- Power efficient OTA and resonator