Kursinformation
Elective Course for:
E3/E4, D3/D4, Socware and Graduate students
Credits: 7.5
Prerequisites:
- Integrated A/D and D/A Converters - ETI220
Course Manager: Pietro Andreani
Lab Supervisor(s): Dejan Radjen, Xiaodong Liu
Literature:
R. Schreier and G. C. Temes, "Understanding Delta-Sigma Data Converters", John Wiley & Sons, 2005. We will also use parts of the course book in the course Integrated A/D and D/A Converters - ETI220, i.e. Franco Maloberti, "Data Converters", Springer, 2007.
Course Composition:
- 10 x 2h lectures
- 3 lab assignments with 3 x 4h supervised lab time
Examination:
Pass Grade
- Presence at at least 10 lectures
- Presence at the 3 lab sessions
- A written lab assignment report per lab group, with your own solutions to the lab assignments
Course Goals:
The goal of the course is to provide a thorough introduction to the world of oversampled A/D and D/A converters, commonly referred to as Delta-Sigma A/D and D/A converters. This kind of converters is extremely popular because they are digital-friendly, which means that their performance highly benifits from the ongoing scaling of standard CMOS processes. Because of this, Delta-Sigma converters are spreading to applications that were once reserved to traditional (Nyquist-rate) converters.
Course Contents in brief:
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Low-order Delta-Sigma modulators
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Higher-order Delta-Sigma modulators
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Continuous-time Delta-Sigma modulators
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Implementation issues in state-of-the-art CMOS processes