A Dynamic Dither Gain Control Technique for Multi-Level Delta-Sigma DACs with Multi-Stage Second Order Dynamic Element Matching

A dynamic dither gain control technique for multi-level delta-sigma Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) using multi-stage Dynamic Element Matching (DEM) with a second order loop filter is proposed. The proposed technique provides improvement on the mismatch shaping performance through dynamic contro...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEICE Transactions on Electronics 2011/03/01, Vol.E94.C(3), pp.346-352
Hauptverfasser: TAMURA, Yu, IDO, Toru, TANIGUCHI, Kenji
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A dynamic dither gain control technique for multi-level delta-sigma Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) using multi-stage Dynamic Element Matching (DEM) with a second order loop filter is proposed. The proposed technique provides improvement on the mismatch shaping performance through dynamic control of delta-sigma modulator dither gain. A large dither gain, which suppresses DEM operation dependency on input signal, is applied to delta-sigma modulator, when DEM loop filter output is greater than a designed reference. The design example using the proposed technique on a third order 17-level delta-sigma modulator with 3-stage cascaded DEM is shown in this paper. Simulation result with 1% analog segment mismatch shows over 10dB improvement of THD+N performance under -50dB amplitude input signal, compared to the case without the proposed technique.
ISSN:0916-8524
1745-1353
DOI:10.1587/transele.E94.C.346