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A Multi-Mode Sigma-Delta ADC for GSM/WCDMA/WLAN Applications

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The demand for new telecommunication services requiring higher capacities, data rates and different operating modes have motivated the development of new generation multi-standard wireless transceivers. In multi-standard design, sigma-delta based ADC is one of the most popular choices. To this end, in this paper we present cascaded 2-2-2 reconfigurable sigma-delta modulator that can handle GSM, WCDMA and WLAN standards. The modulator makes use of a low-distortion swing suppression topology which is highly suitable for wide band applications. In GSM mode, only the first stage (2nd order ∑-Δ ADC) is used to achieve a peak SNDR of 88dB with over-sampling ratio of 160 for a bandwidth of 200KHz and for WCDMA mode a 2-2 cascaded structure (4th order) is turned on with 1-bit in the first stage and 2-bit in the second stage to achieve 74 dB peak SNDR with over-sampling ratio of 16 for a bandwidth of 2MHz. Finally, a 2-2-2 cascaded MASH architecture with 4-bit in the last stage is proposed to achieve a peak SNDR of 58dB for WLAN for a bandwidth of 20MHz. The novelty lies in the fact that unused blocks of second and third stages can be made inactive to achieve low power consumption. The modulator is designed in TSMC 0.18um CMOS technology and operates at 1.8 supply voltage.

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Acknowledgments

A preliminary version of this paper has appeared at the IEEE International Conference on System on Chip Design (IEEE SOC ’ 07) in September, 2007 as “A triple-mode feed-forward sigma-delta modulator design for GSM / WCDMA / WLAN applications.”

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  1. Dept of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India

    Babita R. Jose & P. Mythili

  2. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Jimson Mathew

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Jose, B.R., Mathew, J. & Mythili, P. A Multi-Mode Sigma-Delta ADC for GSM/WCDMA/WLAN Applications. J Sign Process Syst 62, 117–130 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-008-0326-z

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