Reza Gholami

Work place: Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Babol, Iran

E-mail: r_gholami@stu.nit.ac.ir

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Research Interests: Engineering

Biography

Reza Gholami received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from Shomal University, Amol, Iran, in 2009. Now he is M.Sc. student in the field of Analog Circuit Design in Babol University of Technology, Babol, Iran. His current research interests include mixed analog–digital integrated circuits focus on Sigma-Delta modulators, the analysis and design of radio frequency CMOS integrated circuits, and systems and high-frequency oscillators.

Author Articles
Filter Loop Reduction in DT BP Sigma-Delta Modulator Assisted by Noise Coupling Technique

By Reza Gholami Gholamreza Ardeshir Hossein Miar-Naimi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2014.08.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jul. 2014

In bandpass modulators, a 2N-order loop filter can lead to an N-order noise shaping in the band of interest. This caused a bandpass modulator with more complex structure than a lowpass modulator and increased the power consumption and area of the modulator. In this paper, we proposed a discrete-time bandpass modulator using the noise-coupling technique that only needs to a second- order loop filter to have a second-order noise shaping. To realize a noise coupled bandpass modulator, we need to implement Z-2 delay block in the analog domain, but the proposed modulator uses only Z-1 delay blocks to apply the noise coupling technique. This simplifies the structure of the modulator and reduces the power consumption, area, and nonlinearity of the modulator. The error in the coupling path is considered and the effect of it on the modulator resolution is analyzed. According to the simulation results, the proposed modulator results in SNR = 84.9 dB at 80 MHz sampling frequency, 200 KHz bandwidth and OSR = 200.

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