Robust Sigma Delta Converters

Robert H.M. van Veldhoven was born in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1972. After finishing his pre-education (HAVO) at ''Het Hertog-Jan College'' in Valkenswaard, he started to study ''hands-on'' electronics at the MTS ''Leonardo Da Vinci college'' in Eindhoven. After 2 years at the MTS, he started studying electrical engineering at the polytechnical college ''Fontys Hogescholen'' in Eindhoven. In 1996 he joined the Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems group at Philips Research after successfully finishing his graduation project on a low-power Sigma Delta modulator for multi-meter applications. After working 3 years at Philips he started to pursue a master degree in Electronics from the Technical University of Eindhoven, which he successfully finished in 2003. After working for 10 years at Philips Research, he joined the Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems group at NXP Semiconductor Research in Eindhoven in 2006, where he is an expert in the field of high-resolution A/D and D/A converters, and integrated circuits for instrumentation-, sensor-, audio-, and radio-systems. In 2010 he pursued a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering. Van Veldhoven holds various US patents and published various papers at leading conferences and in leading journals, and is reviewer for several professional journals and conferences. In 2004 and 2010, he was invited to give a forum presentation at the ISSCC about /sd modulators for wireless and cellular receivers. Arthur H.M. van Roermund (SM’95) was born in Delft, The Netherlands in 1951. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1975 from the Delft Universi­ty of Technol­ogy and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium, in 1987. From 1975 to 1992 he was with Philips Re­search Laborato­ries in Eindhoven. From 1992 to 1999 he has been a full pro­fessor at the Electrical Engineer­ing Depart­ment of Delft Universi­ty of Technol­ogy, where he was chairman of the Elec­tronics Research Group and member of the management team of DIMES. From 1992 to 1999 he has been chairman of a two-years post-graduate school for “chartered designer”. From 1992 to 1997 he has been consultant for Philips. October 1999 he joined Eindhoven University of Technology as a full professor, chairing the Mixed-signal Microelectronics Group. Since September 2002 he is also director of research of the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is chairman of the board of ProRISC, a nation-wide microelectronics platform; a member of the ICT research platform for the Netherlands (IPN); and a member of the supervisory board of the NRC Photonics research centre. Since 2001, he is one of the three organisers of the yearly workshop on Advanced Analog Circuit Design (AACD). In 2004 he achieved the ‘Simon Stevin Meester’ award, coupled to a price of 500.000€, for his scientific and technological achievements. In 2007 he was member of an international assessment panel for the Department of Electronics and Information of Politecnico di Milano, and in 2009 for Electronics and Electrical Engineering for the merged Aalto University Finland. He authored/co-authored more than 300 articles and 25 books.  

List of abbreviations.- Terminology.- List of symbols.- Nomenclature.- 1 Introduction.- 2 System quality indicators.- 3 Integrated receiver architectures for cellular and connectivity.- 4 Specifications for A/D converters in cellular and connectivity receivers.- 5 SD modulator algorithmic accuracy.- 6 SD modulator robustness.- 7 SD modulator flexibility.- 8 SD modulator efficiency.- 9 SD modulator implementations and the quality indicators.- 10 Conclusions.- A Harmonic and intermodulation distortion in an I&Q system.- B Distortion of a differential input transistor pair biased in weak inversion.- C Fourier series expansion and return-to-zero.- D Clock jitter in an I&Q system according to the TPJE clock jitter model.- References.- Index.

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