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Parallel Look-Ahead Digital SDM with Energy-Balance Binary Comparator

Authors: Hawksford, Malcolm Omar

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society · Volume 56 · Issue 12 · pp. 1069–1089 · December 2008

Abstract

Because conventional sigma–delta modulators have a proclivity toward instability when excited by high-amplitude audio signals, a modified detection process incorporates an energy metric. This new paradigm uses the sums of the energy in the filter integrators as part of the five-sample look-ahead. Unlike a conventional sigma–delta modulator, which only considers the filter output, this approach also lowers the stored energy within the filter. As an intrinsic tradeoff, increased stability at high levels increases noise modulation. An energy-balance algorithm can use a highly parallel matrix operation for computational efficiency.

Details

Publication
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Volume
56
Issue
12
Pages
1069–1089
Publication date
December 6, 2008
Affiliation
University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Journal Article