• DocumentCode
    1298582
  • Title

    A Spur-Free MASH DDSM With High-Order Filtered Dither

  • Author

    Fitzgibbon, Brian ; Pamarti, Sudhakar ; Kennedy, Michael Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
  • Volume
    58
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    585
  • Lastpage
    589
  • Abstract
    A novel dithered multistage noise shaping (MASH) digital delta-sigma modulator (DDSM) that produces a spur-free output spectrum is presented. The order of the least significant bit (LSB) dither shaping can be increased to that of the modulator, without producing spurious tones. Theoretical results prove that the quantization noise is asymptotically white and uncorrelated with the input; this is corroborated by behavioral simulations.
  • Keywords
    circuit noise; delta-sigma modulation; filtering theory; modulators; quantisation (signal); LSB dither shaping; digital delta-sigma modulator; dithered multistage noise shaping; high-order filtered dither; least significant bit dither shaping; quantization noise; spur-free MASH DDSM; spur-free output spectrum; Delta-sigma modulation; Frequency synthesizers; Modulation; Multi-stage noise shaping; Noise; Quantization; Transfer functions; Digital delta–sigma modulator (DDSM); dither techniques; multistage noise shaping (MASH); quantization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1549-7747
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCSII.2011.2161172
  • Filename
    5985505