2011 IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award Given to Bolatkale, Breems, Rutten, and Makinwa for ?A 4-GHz Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma ADC with 70-dB DR and -74 dBFS THD in 125-MHz BW? [People]

The article "A 4-GHz Continuous-Time Δ-ΣADC with 70-dB DR and -74 dBFS THD in 125-MHz BW" by Muhammed Bolatkale, Lucien J. Breems, Robert Rutten, and Kofi A.A. Makinwa, published in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2857-2868, Dec. 2011, was declared best of all in JSSC 2011. The authors\´ novel approach modifies loop filter architecture to deal with the parasitics and excess delay of the large comparator array in the 4-GHz multibit quantizer. Their five-times improvement in bandwidth compared to state-of-theart CMOS delta-sigma modulators enlarges the application domain of these ADCs, enabling them to compete with high speed architectures like pipeline ADCs. A detailed review of the article is provided.