Reconfiguration of Cascade ΣΔ Modulators for Multistandard GSM/Bluetooth/UIMTS/WLAN Transceivers

This paper presents design considerations for cascade Sigma-Delta Modulators (ΣΔMs) included in multi-standard wireless transceivers. Four different standards are covered: GSM, Bluetooth, UMTS and WLAN. A top-down design methodology is proposed to find out the optimum modulator architecture in terms...

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Autores: Morgado, Alonso, Río, Rocío del, Rosa, José M. de la, Medeiro, Fernando, Pérez-Verdú, Belén, Fernández, Francisco V., Rodríguez-Vázquez, Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/3828
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3828
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sigma-Delta Modulators
Multi-Standard Transceivers
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Sumario:This paper presents design considerations for cascade Sigma-Delta Modulators (ΣΔMs) included in multi-standard wireless transceivers. Four different standards are covered: GSM, Bluetooth, UMTS and WLAN. A top-down design methodology is proposed to find out the optimum modulator architecture in terms of circuit complexity and reconfiguration parameters. The selected 2-1^(L-2) expandible YAM is high-level sized and several reconfiguration strategies are adopted at both architecture- and circuit-level in order to adapt the modulator performance to the different standards requirements with adaptive power consumption. Time-domain simulations are shown to validate the presented approach.