Adaptive compensation of analog circuit imperfections for cascaded delta-sigma ADCs

Cascaded delta-sigma modulators are known to suffer from analog circuit imperfections. The adaptive algorithm and structure proposed in this paper can digitally compensate the effects of these imperfections using digital filtering. Experimental results show that after compensation a performance improvement of more than 25 dB in signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio can be achieved.

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