Analysis of Harmonic Distortion of Sigma-Delta Modulator

In this paper, the harmonic distortion of fourth-order sigma-delta modulator is analyzed. Based on the analysis non-ideal models are established and simulation results demonstrated the validity of these models. The non-linear capacitors introduce harmonic distortion and the non-linear on-resistance nearly only introduce second order harmonic distortion. The non-ideal integrators can increase the noise floor of the modulator.The fully-differential topology can be adopted to eliminate even order harmonic distortion and the operational amplifier with high performance can also be used to decrease noise floor of the modulator.