CMOS SigmaDelta Converters: Practical Design Guide,Used

A comprehensive overview of SigmaDelta AnalogtoDigital Converters (ADCs) and a practical guide to their design in nanoscale CMOS for optimal performance.This book presents a systematic and comprehensive compilation of sigmadelta converter operating principles, the new advances in architectures and circuits, design methodologies and practical considerations going from systemlevel specifications to silicon integration, packaging and measurements, with emphasis on nanometer CMOS implementation. The book emphasizes practical design issues from highlevel behavioural modelling in MATLAB/SIMULINK, to circuitlevel implementation in Cadence Design FrameWork II. As well as being a comprehensive reference to the theory, the book is also unique in that it gives special importance on practical issues, giving a detailed description of the different steps that constitute the whole design flow of sigmadelta ADCs.The book begins with an introductory survey of sigmadelta modulators, their fundamentals architectures and synthesis methods covered in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, the effect of main circuit error mechanisms is analysed, providing the necessary understanding of the main practical issues affecting the performance of sigmadelta modulators. The knowledge derived from the first two chapters is presented in the book as an essential part of the systematic topdown/bottomup synthesis methodology of sigmadelta modulators described in Chapter 3, where a timedomain behavioural simulator named SIMSIDES is described and applied to the highlevel design and verification of sigmadelta ADCs. Chapter 4 moves farther down from systemlevel to the circuit and physical level, providing a number of design recommendations and practical recipes to complete the design flow of sigmadelta modulators. To conclude the book, Chapter 5 gives an overview of the stateoftheart sigmadelta ADCs, which are exhaustively analysed in order to extract practical design guidelines and to identify the incoming trends, design challenges as well as practical solutions proposed by cuttingedge designs. Offers a complete survey of sigmadelta modulator architectures from fundamentals to stateofthe art topologies, considering both switchedcapacitor and continuoustime circuit implementations Gives a systematic analysis and practical design guide of sigmadelta modulators, from a topdown/bottomup perspective, including mathematical models and analytical procedures, behavioural modeling in MATLAB/SIMULINK, macromodeling, and circuitlevel implementation in Cadence Design FrameWork II, chip prototyping, and experimental characterization. Systematic compilation of cuttingedge sigmadelta modulators Complete description of SIMSIDES, a timedomain behavioural simulator implemented in MATLAB/SIMULINK Plenty of examples, case studies, and simulation test benches, covering the different stages of the design flow of sigmadelta modulators A number of electronic resources, including SIMSIDES, the statistical data used in the stateoftheart survey, as well as many design examples and test benches are hosted on a companion websiteEssential reading for Researchers and electronics engineering practitioners interested in the design of highperformance data converters integrated in nanometer CMOS technologies; mixedsignal designers.