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question in opamp design in sigma delta modulator
Apr 20th, 2006, 7:23pm
 
hi all,

i am a beginer in analog ic design and now in my first project sigma-delta ADC.

but,how do i get the specific requirements of opamps (gain,bandwidth,...)in sigma delta modulator?

is there any theory to calculate these parameter?

thanks a lot for your help!!pr
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Reply #1 - Apr 20th, 2006, 8:06pm
 
Matlab is a simple simulation tool.
you can go matlab site to download it.
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Reply #2 - Apr 20th, 2006, 8:23pm
 
thanks for reply!
i have made an ideal modulator ,but i do not know how to get the para for designing a practical opamp!eg.how about the opamp's  gain,bandwidth,slew rate?
just by simulation?
thanks for help!!
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Reply #3 - Apr 21st, 2006, 1:53am
 
Hi,

You can find information in the yellow book (Schreier, Norsworthy, Temes). I believe that practical issues
of circuit design are discussed in Chapter 11.

A lot also depends on the kind of modulator you have (single-bit, multi-bit, CT, SC, single-loop, MASH etc.).

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Reply #4 - Apr 22nd, 2006, 5:59am
 
Vivek
Thanks for your advice!

please forgive my ignorance,can you tell me how to get the yellow book (Schreier, Norsworthy, Temes)?

my case use multi-bit MASH stucture,discrete time ,SCI.

Thanks again!
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Reply #5 - Apr 23rd, 2006, 12:43am
 
Hi Glacier,

I thought it would have been in the "Books" section of this website, but I see that it is not mentioned.
That is a serious omission. Anyway, the book is called "Delta-Sigma Data Converters: Theory, Design, and Simulation".
The authors are Norsworthy, Schreier and Temes. The book is published by IEEE Press. This book has more information
on analog circuit design in Chapter 11 by Brian Brandt, Paul Ferguson and Mike Rebeschini.

The other book is "Understanding Delta-Sigma Converters" by Schreier and Temes, and also by IEEE Press. This is more
for system design.

Unfortunately, both the books are quite expensive. Maybe you can try getting the first one second hand (as it has been around for
a few years) or look in your library.

Other than that, a few tips:

1. The opamp design constraints are similar to those for switched-capacitor filters. So any good text on SC circuits
will be helpful to you in determining noise, bandwidth, gain etc. Try the one by Gregorian and Temes titled
"Analog MOS Integrated Circuits for Signal Processing", again an expensive book and around for a while.

2. As you are designing MASH, you need to be particularly careful of the noise leakage due to the mismatch
between the analog and digital paths which is usually the big issue in MASH. There are several papers on
the subject in IEEE journals with techniques to correct for these. As I have only made single-loop modulators
myself, that is more or less all I can tell you.

Hope that you find this information useful.

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Vivek
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Reply #6 - Apr 23rd, 2006, 8:37am
 
Millions of thanks to Vivek!
What you said benefits me a lot!
I have heard from the two books you mentioned,but I haven't got them yet!Do you have some e-book or pdf version?My email is glacieryy@gmail.com,thanks!

And now ,I really have some SC filter design references,I will  study them first!Thanks for your advice!

Thanks again!
regards!
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Reply #7 - Apr 23rd, 2006, 9:25am
 
I have added the yellow book to the Books section (http://www.designers-guide.org/Books/#Norsworthy-1996).

-Ken
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Reply #8 - Apr 23rd, 2006, 11:07am
 
Ken
please forgive my ignorance,I am new in this forum!Do you mean I should buy the book through the website you have sent to me ?Thank you!

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Reply #9 - Apr 24th, 2006, 1:01am
 
Primarily the books given on the site are recommended by the members of the Designer's Guide Community. It is a place to find books on analog, RF and mixed-signal design that other analog designers recommend. If you do go through the links provided on the Books page to either Amazon or Barnes & Noble, then a small percentage of the purchase price comes back to the community and is used to fund the developement or maintenence of the site. So yes, if you are going to buy a book, or actually anything on Amazon or B&N, I would appreciate it if you used the links on the Books page to get there.

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Reply #10 - Apr 24th, 2006, 5:29am
 
Thanks Ken!
I think I have gotten what you mean!If I want to read the book,I must buy it!
Thanks a lot!

I also hope someone can give me some suggestions to my case!Thanks for anybody's help!

regard
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Reply #11 - Apr 24th, 2006, 9:15am
 
Hi Glacier,

whether you are in industry or academia, you should be able to find some experienced person around you or the university library who has this book available.

As a starting point, you should use Schreier's toolbox, available on the Mathworks web site, to get design parameters for your design:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=19&obje...
He's one of the editor's of the above-mentioned book and his toolbox is commonly used in the design of sigma-delta modulators. There are two other toolboxes available, implementing Simulink models, but I never used these, so I cannot comment on their usefulness:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=2460&ob...
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=7589&ob...

Paul
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Reply #12 - Apr 26th, 2006, 1:31am
 
hi Paul
Thanks for your advice!
I should have a simulink model first,then use the toolbox to calculate the paraments of the model. Is it right?

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Reply #13 - Apr 26th, 2006, 2:55pm
 
No, Schreier's toolbox uses plain Matlab only. The other two mentioned toolboxes are running in Simulink. If you want to use Schreier's toolbox, you can go straight ahead with Matlab, without having a simulink model. You can first use the basic functions to figure out the main parameters like OSR, number of quantizer bits and modulator order and obtain the resulting performance. You can find some examples here (take care of the line break when pasting the link into your browser):
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-97...

The toolbox also comes with a short manual describing the different functions.

Paul
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Reply #14 - Apr 28th, 2006, 7:53pm
 
Thanks Paul,
I have download the toolbox and resource.They are very helpful to me .
Thanks again.

Best wishes.
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