Multibit oversampled Sigma Delta A/D converters as front end for CD players

A technique is presented for deriving all of the different control signals needed for focusing and radial tracking in a digital servosystem for compact disc (CD) players, as well as the full band data from the disc. Because of the different natures of all those signals, different bandwidth and dynamic range, complex analog anti-aliasing circuits, and several types of A/D (analog-to-digital) converters would normally be required to convert the signals from the analog to digital domain. With the proposed technique it is possible to carry out the conversion of the high-frequency data as well as the low-frequency control signals with only a single type of multibit sigma-delta ( Sigma Delta ) A/D converter in combination with digital signal processing. The use of Sigma Delta type A/D conversion also has other advantages such as its suitability for integration in a CMOS VLSI process and the fact that the requirements for the anti-aliasing filters in front of the converters are relaxed due to the oversampling technique. >

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