num_pages: 426
description: A comprehensive overview of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) and a practical guide to their design in nano-scale CMOS for optimal performance.This book presents a systematic and comprehensive compilation of sigma-delta converter operating principles the new advances in architectures and circuits design methodologies and practical considerations  going from system-level specifications to silicon integration packaging and measurements with emphasis on nanometer CMOS implementation. The book emphasizes practical design issues  from high-level behavioural modelling in MATLAB/SIMULINK to circuit-level implementation in Cadence Design FrameWork II. As well as being a comprehensive reference to the theory the book is also unique in that it gives special importance on practical issues giving a detailed description of the different steps that constitute the whole design flow of sigma-delta ADCs. The book begins with an introductory survey of sigma-delta modulators their fundamentals architectures and synthesis methods covered in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2 the effect of main circuit error mechanisms is analysed providing the necessary understanding of the main practical issues affecting the performance of sigma-delta modulators. The knowledge derived from the first two chapters is presented in the book as an essential part of the systematic top-down/bottom-up synthesis methodology of sigma-delta modulators described in Chapter 3 where a time-domain behavioural simulator named SIMSIDES is described and applied to the high-level design and verification of sigma-delta ADCs. Chapter 4 moves farther down from system-level to the circuit and physical level providing a number of design recommendations and practical recipes to complete the design flow of sigma-delta modulators. To conclude the book Chapter 5 gives an overview of the state-of-the-art sigma-delta ADCs which are exhaustively analysed in order to extract practical design guidelines and to identify the incoming trends design challenges as well as practical solutions proposed by cutting-edge designs. Offers a complete survey of sigma-delta modulator architectures from fundamentals to state-of-the art topologies considering both switched-capacitor and continuous-time circuit implementations Gives a systematic analysis and practical design guide of sigma-delta modulators from a top-down/bottom-up perspective including mathematical models and analytical procedures behavioural modeling in MATLAB/SIMULINK macromodeling and circuit-level implementation in Cadence Design FrameWork II chip prototyping and experimental characterization. Systematic compilation of cutting-edge sigma-delta modulators Complete description of SIMSIDES a time-domain behavioural simulator implemented in MATLAB/SIMULINK Plenty of examples case studies and simulation test benches covering the different stages of the design flow of sigma-delta modulators A number of electronic resources including SIMSIDES the statistical data used in the state-of-the-art survey as well as many design examples and test benches are hosted on a companion website Essential reading for Researchers and electronics engineering practitioners interested in the design of high-performance data converters integrated in nanometer CMOS technologies; mixed-signal designers.
language: English
title: CMOS Sigma-Delta Converters: Practical Design Guide
publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press