Design of a 130-nm CMOS Reconfigurable Cascade ΣΔ Modulator for GSM/UMTS/Bluetooth

This paper reports a 130-nm CMOS programmable cascade ΣΔ modulator for multistandard wireless terminals, covering three standards: GSM, Bluetooth and UMTS. The modulator is reconfigured at both architecture- and circuit level in order to adapt its performance to the different standard specifications...

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Autores: Morgado, Alonso, Río, Rocío del, Rosa, José M. de la
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/3832
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3832
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Reconfigurable Circuits
Sigma-Delta Modulators
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Sumario:This paper reports a 130-nm CMOS programmable cascade ΣΔ modulator for multistandard wireless terminals, covering three standards: GSM, Bluetooth and UMTS. The modulator is reconfigured at both architecture- and circuit level in order to adapt its performance to the different standard specifications with optimized power consumption. The design of the building blocks is based upon a top-down CAD methodology that combines simulation and statistical optimization at different levels of the system hierarchy. Transistor-level simulations show correct operation for all standards, featuring 13-bit, 11.3-bit and 9-bit effective resolution within 200-kHz, 1-MHz and 4-MHz bandwidth, respectively.