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Title:
Wide-bandwidth high dynamic range D/A converters
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International series in engineering and computer science
Publication Information:
Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, 2006
ISBN:
9780387304151

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30000010113076 TK7887.6 D67 2006 Open Access Book Book
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Summary

IGH-SPEED Digital to Analog (D/A) converters are essential components in digi- Htal communication systems providing the necessary conversion of signals encoding information in bits to signals encoding information in their amplitude vs. time domain characteristics. In general, they are parts of a larger system, the interface, which c- sists of several signal conditioning circuits. Dependent on where the converter is located within the chain of circuits in the interface, signal processing operations are partitioned in those realized with digital techniques, and those with analog. The rapid evolution of CMOS technology has established implicit and explicite trends related to the interface, and in particular to the D/A converter. The implicit relationship comes via the growth of digital systems. First, it is a global trend with respect to all interface circuits that increasing operating frequencies of digital systems place a similar demand for the interface circuits. The second trend takes place locally within the int- face. Initially, the D/A converter was placed at the beginning of the interface chain, and all signal conditioning was implemented in the analog domain after the D/A conversion. The increasing ?exibility and robustness of digital signal processing shifted the D/A converter closer to the end point of the chain where the demands for high quality high frequency operation are very high.


Author Notes

Dr Konstantinos Doris is from Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. His advisor, Prof. Arthur van Roermund, finds his work in the subject of high-speed DA converters an excellent candidate for us to publish.

Dr. Leenaerts is seen to be one of the top experts in RF Circuit Design in Europe.


Table of Contents

Glossary
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Preface
1 Digital to Analog conversion concepts
1.1 Functional aspects
1.2 Algorithmic aspects
1.3 Signal processing aspects
1.4 Circuit aspects
1.5 Conclusions
2 Framework for Analysis and Synthesis of DACs
2.1 Overview
2.2 Framework description
3 Current Steering DACs
3.1 Basic circuit
3.2 Implementations and technology impact
4 Dynamic limitations of Current Steering DACs
4.1 State of the art in dynamic linearity
4.2 Dynamic limitations of current steering DACs
4.3 Conclusions
5 Current Steering DAC circuit error analysis
5.1 Amplitude domain errors
5.2 Time domain errors
5.3 Conclusions
6 High-level modeling of Current Steering DACs
6.1 System modeling
6.2 Error properties and classification
6.3 Functional error generation mechanisms
6.4 Conclusions
7 Functional modeling of timing errors
7.1 Non-uniform timing
7.2 Stochastic non-uniform timing analysis
7.3 Deterministic non-uniform timing
7.4 Conclusions
8 Functional analysis of local timing errors
8.1 Local timing error analysis
8.2 High level architectural parameter tradeoffs: segmentation
8.3 Conclusions
9 Circuit analysis of local timing errors
9.1 Circuit analysis with linear models
9.2 Local timing error tradeoffs
9.3 Conclusions
10 Synthesis concepts for CS DACs
10.1 Information management in the CS DAC
10.2 Synthesis Policy
10.3 A-posteriori error correction methods
10.4 Conclusions
11 Design of a 12 bit 500 Msample/s DAC
11.1 Design approach
11.2 Architecture
11.3 Switched-Current cell
11.4 Decoder, data synchronization and conditioning
11.5 Layout
11.6 Experimental results
11.7 Conclusions
References
A Output spectrum for timing errors
A.1 Power spectrum of y(t) for random timing errors
A.2 Spectrum of y(t) for deterministic timing errors
B Literature data
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