Towards a Better Understanding of 1-Bit Sigma-Delta Modulators - Part 3

Vanderkooy J, Lipshitz SP. Towards a Better Understanding of 1-Bit Sigma-Delta Modulators - Part 3. In: AES Convention 112. Audio Engineering Society; 2002. Paper 5620. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=11342

@inproceedings{Vanderkooy2002_11342,
  author = {Vanderkooy, John and Lipshitz, Stanley P.},
  title = {{Towards a Better Understanding of 1-Bit Sigma-Delta Modulators - Part 3}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 112},
  note = {Paper 5620},
  year = {2002},
  month = apr,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=11342}
}

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AB  - This is Part 3 of our ongoing investigation into the behaviour of 1-bit sigma-delta modulators. It addresses the following topics: (a) Angus has claimed that an undithered 1-bit sigma-delta modulator is effectively self-dithered by its internal noise. We show that his conclusion is essentially a quasi-dc one, and that his pictures of self-dither, although suggestive, do not in fact signify the elimination of all correlated artefacts in the way achieved by a properly-dithered multi-bit modulator. (b) The "average-gain-plus-additive-noise" model of the 1-bit quantizer can be misleading as regards its nonlinearities, even though it may be useful for predicting its stability. We briefly discuss this issue. (c) Some undithered modulators clearly show the production of subharmonic tones. We study the conditions under which this occurs. (d) We also have some observations about why the integrated spectrum of many undithered 1-bit modulators is precisely conjugate-even about fS/4. (e) The idle tone in a 3-level (i.e., 11/2-bit) sigma-delta modulator manifests itself in a different way from that in a 2-level modulator. We study the effect of dither in suppressing the idle tone in both these topologies.
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