A comparison between two different FPGA-based topologies of first order sigma-delta modulator

Abstract

Integrating sigma-delta modulator (SDM) in FPGA causes to have quantization noise inside interested bandwidth. This paper compares and analyzes between two possible FPGA-based SDM structures which are non-noise shaper SDM and noise-shaper SDM. The difference between these two structures is in the integrator block. All other SDM constitutive components are the same for both structures. First-order noise-shaper SDM with its maximum integration for FPGA implementation is reported. The advantages of noise-shaper SDM over non-noise shaper SDM are the elimination of input peak signal error as well as the increment of input voltage range. Moreover, higher suppression in signal harmonics results in better reconstruction of input signal at the output. However, the most important outcome is the improvement of quantization noise shaping out of the interested bandwidth which results higher SNR at the output.

Sigma Delta Modulators: A Review

“…Since performance and power consumption are the most critical factors in these designs, the following criterion was used to compare modulators across different architectures. [7] A. An area-efficient feed forward multi-bit sigma-delta modulator is designed in this paper.…”

“…However, the most important outcome is the improvement of quantization noise shaping out of the interested bandwidth which results higher SNR at the output. [7] Fig .11: 2 SDM architectures using passive components.…”