Degradation of Alias Rejection in Continuous-Time Bandpass Delta-Sigma Converters due to Weak Loop Filter Nonlinearities
26 May 2019-pp 1-5
TL;DR: The expression for alias rejection is derived when the OTA used in the first integrator is realized as a two stage feed-forward compensated structure and simulation results confirm the theory.
Abstract: We show that the nonlinearity of the first integrator's operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) significantly degrades the alias rejection of a bandpass CTΔEM in the presence of OTA parasitics. We derive the expression for alias rejection when the OTA used in the first integrator is realized as a two stage feed-forward compensated structure. Simulation results confirm the theory.
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