A Low-Distortion Adderless Zero-Time Reset Incremental Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2025 20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (electronic)9798331503901
ISBN (print)979-8-3315-0391-8
Publication statusPublished - 21 Sept 2025
Event20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025 - Taormina, Italy
Duration: 21 Sept 202524 Sept 2025

Abstract

This work presents a low-distortion adderless switched-capacitor (SC) incremental delta-sigma modulator (I-Δ Σ M), where the reset in the SC circuit is applied for half a cycle, thereby achieving a zero-time reset from a system perspective. It is derived that the adderless low-distortion path is maintained as it effectively becomes an SC-adder path directly following the reset. The key innovation of this work lies in the combination of the adderless topology with the zero-time reset, along with the derivation of the inherently higher bandwidth of a half cycle reset system. In contrast to state-of-the-art (SOTA) I-Δ Σ M designs, which predominantly implement a full cycle reset, the zero-time reset yields valuable bandwidth. By means of a 2nd-order architecture, it is shown that the bandwidth increases by 12.5% at an oversampling ratio (OSR) of 8, while achieving nearly identical resolution. The concept is verified by simulation in a 55 nm CMOS technology. It is shown that neither the transmission gates nor limitations in the amplifiers impede the settling of the reset, which proves that the zero-time reset can be implemented in most SC-I- Δ Σ Ms designs to increase the bandwidth.

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    adderless, analog-to-digital, high-bandwidth, incremental delta-sigma, switched-capacitor, zero-time reset

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A Low-Distortion Adderless Zero-Time Reset Incremental Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter. / Flemming, Jesko; Tang, Kaxin; Wicht, Bernhard et al.
2025 20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025.

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Flemming, J, Tang, K, Wicht, B & Witte, P 2025, A Low-Distortion Adderless Zero-Time Reset Incremental Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter. in 2025 20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025, Taormina, Italy, 21 Sept 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/PRIME66228.2025.11203575
Flemming, J., Tang, K., Wicht, B., & Witte, P. (2025). A Low-Distortion Adderless Zero-Time Reset Incremental Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter. In 2025 20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PRIME66228.2025.11203575
Flemming J, Tang K, Wicht B, Witte P. A Low-Distortion Adderless Zero-Time Reset Incremental Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter. In 2025 20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2025 doi: 10.1109/PRIME66228.2025.11203575
Flemming, Jesko ; Tang, Kaxin ; Wicht, Bernhard et al. / A Low-Distortion Adderless Zero-Time Reset Incremental Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter. 2025 20th International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025.
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