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In this thesis, a 3,3-V, 14-bit, 16-ksamples/sec △□ analog to digital converter is proposed. The A/D converter consists of a second-order switched-capacitor (SC) △□ modulator for A/D conversion at a 2.048MHz sampling rate and FIR multi-stage digital filters for decimation with oversampling rate of 128. A speech signal with a bandwidth of 7 kHz is converted to a single-bit digital output signal with a 2.048MHz data rate by the second-order SC △□ modulator, and then the single-bit data stream from the analog △□ modulator is fed into the decimation filter. The decimation filters convert a 2.048MHz single-bit data stream into a 14-bit, 16kHz digital output data format. Generally, the output performance of an oversampling analog to digital converter is determined by the analog components Namely, it is determined by the performance of the △□ modulator. For A/D conversion, the architecture of the △□ modulator is very simple. The △□ modulator consists of several components, such as op-amp, comparators, and switched-capacitors, However, the performance of an SC △□ modulator is typically degraded due to some non-ideal factors, such as finite op-amp gain, clock feedthrough noise, and accuracy of the charge transferring between capacitors. In order to overcome these described problems, a second-order SC △□ modulator with techniques of op-amp gain-compensation, lower clock feedthrough noise, and more exact charge transferring between capacitors is employed for the A/D conversion. The die area and power consumption of oversampling A/D converters are governed largely by the decimation filters. In order to implement an efficient A/D converter, this thesis tries to design a low-power and area-efficient linear phase digital filter for decimation. The low-pass filtering and the rate conversion for decimation are performed in several stages. The partitioning of the stage reduces the needed filter orders and the computational requirements. All digital filters are implemented as linear-phase FIR filters for optimal waveform reproduction and good numeric stability. The SNR of the second-order △□ modulator is more than 80dB; however, this thesis only uses a moderate gain op-amp to design this second-order △□ modulator. The decimation is implemented by sinc filter and half-band filters. This design approach can reduce the hardware cost and power consumption. The simulation shows that the operation works well.
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