Spectral shaping of DAC nonlinearity errors through modulation of expected errors

K.O. Andersson, N.U. Andersson, J.J. Wikner
ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (Cat. No.01CH37196)  
Traditionally, delta-sigma modulation has been used for shaping of quantization noise. We present a modified version of delta-sigma modulation which also takes into account unwanted nonlinearities by feeding back not only the quantization error, but also the expected physical error. Behavioral-level simulations of a 5th-order structure showing an improvement of up to 4 effective bits are included.
doi:10.1109/iscas.2001.921336 dblp:conf/iscas/AnderssonAW01 fatcat:xhturuuzxjbujfemuzifmbg55a