Clock jitter and quantizer metastability in continuous-time delta-sigma modulators

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 661-676

  Cherry, James A ^a,b   Martin Snelgrove, W ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Philsar Electronics   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; PHASE MODULATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIMING CIRCUITS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CLOCK JITTER; DISCRETE TIME DESIGNS; QUANTIZATION NOISE; QUANTIZER METASTABILITY;

DELTA SIGMA MODULATION;

EID: 0033149028     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.769775     Document Type: Article

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