vivkr
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Hi,
I don't think it is reasonable to attempt a full transistor level noise simulation of a delta-sigma modulator for two reasons:
1. It will take far too long. 2. You cannot do Pnoise and PSS analysis as the modulator operation is inherently chaotic.
The best bet would be to first budget the noise for different stages. Typically, the first stage should dominate the overall electrical noise. Then, you can estimate the maximum permissible thermal noise floor in your design based on this, and taking into account the aliasing of wideband noise (number of settling timeconstants), and the effect of the chopping scheme if it adds any extra noise. With the discrete-time transfer function of the first integrator, you can estimate its gain at the edge of passband and get a number for the maximum allowable noise from the rest of the circuit.
I would suggest you do Pnoise simulation (if you wish) only on the first stage integrator as this typically is the dominant noise source of all electrical noise sources. If you are not sure about the relative contributions of the different stages, you can either estimate this by hand calculation, or just run a PSS on the modulator without the quantizer and with zero input and reference DC levels. However, I would suggest the hand calculation approach.
Regards Vivek
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