1 Introduction |
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1.1 Advanced, Multi-standard Cellular and Connectivity Terminals for the Mass Market |
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1.1.1 Complexity: Mobile Phone Trends, Its Impact on the Transceiver and the Quest for Integration |
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1.1.2 Transistor Scaling: VLSI and Moore |
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1.1.3 Smarter Circuits: ΣΔ Modulators for Mobile Applications |
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2 System Quality Indicators |
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2.1 The System Function and Its In- and Outputs |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (3) |
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2.2.2 Robustness to Secondary Inputs |
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2.2.5 Emission of Secondary Outputs |
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2.3 The Digital Revolution |
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2.3.1 The Analog-Digital Interface |
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19 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Digital Systems and the Quality Indicators |
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20 | (3) |
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3 Integrated Receiver Architectures for Cellular and Connectivity |
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3.1 Wireless Receiver Architectures for Digital Communication |
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27 | (3) |
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3.2 Receiver Architecture and the Quality Indicators |
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30 | (1) |
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4 Specifications for A/D Converters in Cellular and Connectivity Receivers |
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34 | (11) |
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4.1.2 Zero IF Architecture |
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4.1.3 Near Zero and High IF Architecture |
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37 | (1) |
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4.1.5 DC Offset and Noise |
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4.1.6 RF Front-End and ADC 1/f-Thermal Noise Corner Frequency |
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4.2 Top-End of the ADC DR |
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4.2.1 Signal Levels, Selectivity, and Maximum ADC Input Signal |
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4.3.1 Narrow vs. Broad Band AGC |
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4.4 Bottom-End of the ADC DR |
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4.4.1 Receiver SNR Requirement |
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4.4.2 Receiver Noise Figure and ADC Noise Floor |
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4.5.1 DR of a Quadrature ADC |
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4.6 RF Front-End and ADC Linearity Requirements |
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4.6.1 Second and Third Order Harmonic Distortion |
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4.6.2 Second and Third Order Intermodulation and IP2 and IP3 |
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4.6.3 Third Order Cross-Modulation |
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4.6.4 Distortion in a Quadrature ADC |
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4.7 Example Receiver Partitioning: Receiver for a GSM Mobile Phone |
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4.7.1 IF Choice and Image Rejection |
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4.7.2 Top-End of the ADC Dynamic Range |
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4.7.3 Receiver Sensitivity Requirement and the Bottom-End of the ADC Dynamic Range |
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4.7.4 Receiver Linearity Requirement and ADC Linearity |
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4.8 ADC Requirements, the System Quality Indicators and ΣΔ Modulators as the ADC Architecture |
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5 ΣΔ Modulator Algorithmic Accuracy |
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5.1 ΣΔ Modulators with 1-bit Quantizer and 1-bit DAC |
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5.2 ΣΔ Modulators with b-bit Quantizer and b-bit DAC |
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5.3 ΣΔ Modulators with 1.5-bit Quantizer and DAC |
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5.4 ΣΔ Modulators with Multiple Quantizers and 1-bit DAC |
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5.5 ΣΔ Modulators with Additive Error-Feedback Loops |
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5.6 Cascaded ΣΔ Modulators |
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6 ΣΔ Modulator Robustness |
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6.1 Portable, Technology Robust Analog IP and Time-to-Market |
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6.1.1 Technology Scaling and Its Impact on Analog Design Parameters |
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6.1.2 A Design Methodology to Increase the Portability of Analog IP |
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6.2 Continuous Time vs. Discrete Time Loop Filter |
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6.3 Feed-Forward vs. Feedback Loop Filter |
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6.4.1 ΣΔ Modulator with 1-bit Quantizer and 1-bit DAC |
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6.4.2 ΣΔ Modulator with b-bit Quantizer and b-bit DAC |
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6.4.3 ΣΔ Modulator with Multiple Quantizers and 1-bit DAC |
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6.4.4 ΣΔ Modulator with Additive Error Feedback Loops |
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6.4.5 Cascaded ΣΔ Modulators |
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6.5 Circuit Noise of the Modulator's Input Stage and DAC |
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6.5.1 RC Integrator Input Stage and SI Feedback DAC |
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6.5.2 RC Integrator Input Stage and SR Feedback DAC |
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6.5.3 RC Integrator Input Stage and SC Feedback DAC |
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6.5.4 Impact of Supply Voltage on the Circuit Noise Requirements |
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6.6.1 Non-linearity in the Input Stage |
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6.6.2 Non-linearity in the Quantizer Decision Levels |
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6.6.3 Inter-Symbol-Interference in the Feedback DAC |
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6.6.4 Non-linearity in the Output Levels of the Feedback DAC |
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6.7 Aliasing in ΣΔ Modulators |
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6.7.1 Aliasing in the Quantizer |
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6.7.2 ΣΔ Modulator with an SI Feedback DAC |
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6.7.3 ΣΔ Modulator with an SR Feedback DAC |
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6.7.4 ΣΔ Modulator with an SC Feedback DAC |
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127 | (5) |
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6.8.1 Excess Time Delay Compensation |
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6.8.2 Excess Phase Compensation |
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6.8.3 DAC Feedback Pulse Shape and Delay |
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6.9 Clock Jitter in CT ΣΔ Modulators |
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133 | (6) |
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6.9.2 The TPJE Model: Sine Wave Induced Jitter |
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6.9.3 The TPJE Model: Substitution of White Noise Jitter in the Sine Wave Induced Jitter Model |
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6.9.4 The TPJE Model: SI Versus SC Feedback DAC |
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6.9.5 The TPJE Model: An Application Driven Choice Between SI Versus SC Feedback DAC |
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7 ΣΔ Modulator Flexibility |
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7.1 Receiver Dictated Flexibility Requirements |
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7.2 ΣΔ Modulator Clock Flexibility |
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7.2.1 Receiver Architecture with LO-Dependent ADC Clock |
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7.2.2 Receiver Architecture with a Flexible and Independent Clock for the ADC |
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7.2.3 Receiver Architecture with Fixed, Independent ADC Clock |
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7.2.4 Choice of Clock Strategy |
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7.3 Input Stage and DAC Flexibility |
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7.4 Loop-Filter Flexibility |
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7.5 Quantizer Flexibility |
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8 ΣΔ Modulator Efficiency |
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8.1 Power Efficiency FOM: FOMDR |
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8.1.1 Benchmarking with FOMDR |
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8.2 Power Efficiency FOM: FOMeq,th |
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8.2.1 Benchmarking with FOMeq,th |
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8.3 Distortion FOM: FOMHD3D |
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8.3.1 Benchmarking with FOMHD3D |
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8.4.1 Benchmarking with FOMarea |
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9 ΣΔ Modulator Implementations and the Quality Indicators |
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9.1 Digitization at System/Application Level: ΣΔ Modulators for Highly Digitized Receivers |
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9.1.1 A 1.5-bit ΣΔ Modulator for UMTS |
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9.1.2 A Triple-Mode ΣΔ Modulator for GSM-EDGE, CDMA2000 and UMTS |
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9.1.3 An Extremely Scalable ΣΔ Modulator for Cellular and Wireless Applications |
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9.1.4 Multi-mode Modulator Clock Strategy |
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9.2 Digitization at Analog IP Architecture Level: A Hybrid, Inverter-Based ΣΔ Modulator |
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9.2.1 ΣΔ Modulator Architecture |
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9.2.3 Experimental Results |
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9.3 Digitization at Circuit and Layout Level: Technology Portable ΣΔ Modulators |
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9.3.1 ΣΔ Modulator Architecure |
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9.3.2 Circuit Design and Layout |
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9.4 Implementations Judged on the FOMs and Quality Indicators |
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10 Conclusions |
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A Harmonic and Intermodulation Distortion in an I&Q System |
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A.1 Double Sided Spectrum of Second and Third Order Distortion of a Complex Signal |
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A.2 Double Sided Spectrum of Second and Third Order Distortion in a Complex System |
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B Distortion of a Differential Input Transistor Pair Biased in Weak Inversion |
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C Fourier Series Expansion and Return-to-Zero |
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D Clock Jitter in an I&Q System According to the TPJE Clock Jitter Model |
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References |
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Index |
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