DIRECT DIGITAL-TO-RF CONVERSION FOR MOBILE-PHONE BASESTATION APPLICATIONS USING BANDPASS SIGMA DELTA MODULATION

Stephen Ralph, Ronan Farrell
Abstract:
Sigma-delta modulator based digital-to-analog converters (DAC) have offered low-frequency designers a highly linear, high resolution data converter architecture that is highly amenable to integration with complex digital systems. Increasingly these data converters have been used to deliver all the power needed. In wireless applications, it is increasingly desirable to apply low-frequency sigma-delta techniques to RF signals and try to achieve similar benefits. In this paper we discuss the unique challenges that DACs in mobile phone basestations must satisfy and we present a flexible bandpass sigmadelta modulator architecture that can satisfy these criteria.
Download:
IMEKO-IWADC-2007-F101.pdf
DOI:
-
Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC4
Event name:
IWADC 2007
Title:

12th IMEKO TC4 International Workshop on ADC Modeling and Testing IWADC (together with XVth IMEKO TC4 International Symposium on Novelties in Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation) (IWADC)

Place:
Iasi, ROMANIA
Time:
19 September 2007 - 21 September 2007