A comparative design study of continuous-time incremental sigma-delta ADC architectures

This paper presents a comparative design study of continuous-time CT incremental sigma-delta IΣΔ ADCs, which can expand another dimension of the IΣΔ ADC world that is dominated by discrete-time implementations. Several CT IΣΔ ADC architectures are introduced and analyzed aiming to reduce the modulator's sampling frequency and consequently the power dissipation. Based on the analytical results, three CT IΣΔ ADCs are selected to be examined, implemented, and tested. The three ADC prototypes, fabricated in a standard 0.18-m CMOS technology, demonstrate competitive figure-of-merits in terms of power efficiency compared to the state-of-the-art counterparts. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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