In the first part of this dissertation, low frequency l/f or flicker noise in the frequency range of Hz to kHz has been identified and demonstrated to be described by temperature fluctuations in heat conduction in bipolar transistors operated at higher power densities. This noise phenomenon is not described by...
Recently, continuous-time ΔΣ modulators are appearing increasingly often in both the literature and the marketplace due to their features of inherent antialiasing and relaxed requirements for opamp and so on. However, several nonideal factors such as clock jitter, excess loop delay, inter-symbol interference and so on, degrade the SNR performance...
A method and apparatus are presented for generating suppressed carrier digital clock signals. These clock signals have the advantage of being broad band in nature and thus exhibiting lower power spectral density. Structures or systems utilizing such clock signals would be less likely to create electromagnetic noise of sufficient intensity...
A constant push from society for more information with richer content simultaneously available at the consumers fingertips have pushed the speeds of electronics to extremes. Bus lines on circuit boards responsible for data communication are being pushed to their limit to meet these demands. As data busses are pushed to...
Delta-sigma modulators are currently a very popular technique for making high-resolution
analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. These oversampled data
converters have several advantages over conventional Nyquist-rate converters, including
an insensitivity to many analog component imperfections, a simpler antialiasing filter and
reduced accuracy requirements in the sample and hold. Though the initial...
Delta-sigma modulators are currently a very popular technique for making high-resolution
analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs). Most
delta-sigma modulators in production today employ single-bit quantization because a 1-bit DAC is inherently linear, whereas a multi-bit DAC is not. Were it not for this drawback,
the use of multi-bit...
Time-domain data conversion has recently drawn increased research attention for its highly digital nature in favor of process technology scaling. Also, as the time information being carried by binary voltage, time-domain operation is much less sensitive to voltage noise compared to conventional voltage domain operation. However, for analog-to-digital converter (ADC)...
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Figure 3.19: Proposed TIQ based DM topology using fast coupling path to perform
feedback
GaAs MESFETs are widely used in high speed integrated circuits (ICs) and
microwave circuits. Due to the materials and processing methods used in GaAs
MESFET fabrication, deep level traps in the substrate materials have a strong influence
on device performance.
In this work we used the drain current transient characterization...
The demand for portable electronic systems and the continued
down-scaling of device dimensions resulted in rapid improvement in
the performance of integrated systems. Several low-voltage design
techniques have been proposed to operate analog circuits with sub-1V
supply. However, these techniques require higher power consumption
to achieve large dynamic range while...
As CMOS processes keep scaling down devices, the maximum operating frequencies of CMOS devices increase, and hence circuits can process very wide band signals. Moreover, the small physical dimensions of transistors allow the placing of many more blocks into a single chip, including highly accurate analog blocks and complicated digital...