Time-interleaved oversampling convertors

A new architecture is proposed which exploits the time-interleaving concept to increase the oversampling ratio in delta-sigma modulators. It is shown that the effective oversampling ratio is increased by a factor M through the use of M interconnected modulators. Although a high speed sample-and-hold circuit is still required for an analogue-to-digital convertor, speed constraints are significantly reduced for the majority of analogue parts such as loop filters, A/D and D/A blocks.