Noise Shaping in MASH Delta-Sigma Converters

Analog to Digital

Delta-sigma converters are important for digital-to-digital converters (DDC) and analog-to-digital converters (ADC), especially in audio applications.  Either an analog input or a high-resolution digital input is converted to a low-resolution digital signal via pulse-density modulation.

This article details a special structure for delta-sigma converters: multi-stage noise shaping (MASH).  This structure is free from the instability that plagues standard higher-order delta-sigma converters.  It is shown that the quantization error transfer function is identical for both structures.

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