Nanometer CMOS Sigma-Delta Modulators for Software Defined Radio [Hardcover]

This book presents innovative solutions for the implementation of Sigma-Delta Modulation (SDM) based Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), required for the next generation of wireless hand-held terminals. These devices will be based on the so-called multi-standard transceiver chipsets, integrated in nanometer CMOS technologies. One of the most challenging and critical parts in such transceivers is the analog-digital interface, because of the assorted signal bandwidths and dynamic ranges that can be required to handle the A/D conversion for several operation modes.

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This book describes new adaptive and reconfigurable SDM ADC topologies, circuit strategies and synthesis methods, specially suited for multi-standard wireless telecom systems and future Software-defined-radios (SDRs) integrated in nanoscale CMOS. It is a practical book, going from basic concepts to the frontiers of SDM architectures and circuit implementations, which are explained in a didactical and systematic way. It gives a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art performance, challenges and practical solutions, providing the necessary insight to implement successful design, through an efficient design and synthesis methodology.? Readers will learn a number of practical skills  from system-level design to experimental measurements and testing.

This book presents innovative solutions for the implementation of Sigma-Delta Modulation (SDM) based Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), required for the next generation of wireless hand-held terminals. It goes from basic concepts to the frontiers its subject.

1. Introduction.- 2.?Sigma-Delta DCs: Basic Concepts, Topologies and State of the Art.- 3. New?Sigma-Delta Cascade Modulators for the Next Generation of Wireless Telecom.- ?4. A 130-nm CMOS Reconfigurable 2-1-1 Cascade SC Sigma-Delta M for GSM/BT/UMTS.- 5. A 1.2-V 90-nm CMOS Reconfigurable 2-2 Cascade SC M for GSM/BT/GPS/lS!