Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface xix -- Acknowledgements xxv -- List of Abbreviations xxvii -- 1 Introduction to 𝚺𝚫 Modulators: Fundamentals, Basic Architecture and Performance Metrics 1 -- 1.1 Basics of Analog-to-Digital Conversion 2 -- 1.1.1 Sampling 3 -- 1.1.2 Quantization 4 -- 1.1.3 Quantization White Noise Model 5 -- 1.1.4 Noise Shaping 8 -- 1.2 Sigma-Delta Modulation 9 -- 1.2.1 From Noise-shaped Systems to ΣΔ Modulators 10 -- 1.2.2 Performance Metrics of ΣΔMs 11 -- 1.3 The First-order ΣΔ Modulator 13 -- 1.4 Performance Enhancement and Taxonomy of ΣΔMs 16 -- 1.4.1 ΣΔM System-level Design Parameters and Strategies 17 -- 1.4.2 Classification of ΣΔMs 18 -- 1.5 Putting All The Pieces Together: From ΣΔMs to ΣΔ ADCs 19 -- 1.5.1 Some Words about ΣΔ Decimators 20 -- 1.6 ΣΔ DACs 22 -- 1.6.1 System Design Trade-offs and Signal Processing in ΣΔ DACs 22 -- 1.6.2 Implementation of Digital ΣΔMs used in DACs 24 -- 1.7 Summary 25 -- References 26 -- 2 Taxonomy of 𝚺𝚫 Architectures 29 -- 2.1 Second-order ΣΔ Modulators 30 -- 2.1.1 Alternative Representations of Second-order ΣΔMs 31 -- 2.1.2 Second-Order ΣΔM with Unity STF 34 -- 2.2 High-order Single-loop ΣΔMs 35 -- 2.3 Cascade ΣΔ Modulators 39 -- 2.3.1 SMASH ΣΔM Architectures 46 -- 2.4 Multi-bit ΣΔ Modulators 49 -- 2.4.1 Influence of Multi-bit DAC Errors 49 -- 2.4.2 Dynamic Element Matching Techniques 50 -- 2.4.3 Dual Quantization 53 -- 2.4.3.1 Dual-quantization Single-loop ΣΔMs 53 -- 2.4.3.2 Dual-quantization Cascade ΣΔMs 54 -- 2.5 Band-pass ΣΔ Modulators 55 -- 2.5.1 Quadrature BP-ΣΔMs 56 -- 2.5.2 The z → −z2 LP-BP Transformation 58 -- 2.5.3 BP-ΣΔMs with Optimized NTF 58 -- 2.5.4 Time-interleaved and Polyphase BP-ΣΔMs 61.…”