A 0.8-V 48μW 82dB SNDR 10-kHz bandwidth ΣΔ modulator

This paper presents a low-power chopper stabilized discrete-time 2nd-order feed-forward ΣΔ modulator with a 4-bit asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) quantizer. The weighted sum of integrated and feed-forward signals is merged with the sampling phase of the SAR quantizer to minimize the distortion sources and associated hardware overhead. The 1st integrator uses a partially switched operational amplifier biased in weak inversion to reduce power consumption. The 4-bit SAR quantizer further employs an asynchronous control scheme to reduce the loop delay and power consumption. A 0.13-μm CMOS experimental prototype achieves 84dB dynamic range, 84dB peak SNR, and 82dB peak SNDR over an input bandwidth of 10-kHz. The total power consumption of the modulator is 48μW from a 0.8-V supply at an 800-kHz sampling rate.

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