Design and Simulation of Fourth Order Sigma-Delta Modulator using Parametric Amplifier with Dynamic Threshold for Digital Hearing Aid Application
Subject Areas : Electronics Engineering
Shima Alizadeh Zanjani
1
,
Abumoslem Jannesari
2
,
Pooya Torkzadeh
3
1 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Parametric amplifier, Delta-sigma modulator, discrete time modulator, inverter based amplifier, hearing aid,
Abstract :
In this paper, a fourth-order, OTA-free, single-bit, low-consumption discrete-time (DT) delta-sigma (ΔΣ) modulator with CIFF structure is proposed for hearing aid applications. In portable medical devices such as hearing aids that are used permanently, the battery life and energy dissipation are very important. In a typical delta sigma modulator, the power-hungry parts are the OTA. Therefore, the elimination of OTAs is a challenge, and the proposed modulator uses new differential parametric amplifiers, with dynamic thresholde in even stages and inverter-based amplifiers in odd delta sigma stages instead of the OTAs. The dynamic threshold PMOS technique has been used for the first time in differential MPA, and the theoretical analyzes and simulations performed show better performance than the traditional method. Also, a chopper circuit is used on the first fstage to reduce the harmonics and flicker noise. The proposed differential modulator is simulated using standard 180 nm CMOS technology, which achieves 90.5 dB SFDR and 64 dB SNDR with an input bandwidth frequency of 10 kHz and an oversampling ratio of 128. The power supply is 1V and the FOMW were obtained as 3.43 PJ/step.
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_||_[1] H. Helgi, "A 0.9-V 37-µW 98-dB DR Inverter-Based ΔΣ Modulator for Hearing Aids," Master Thesis, Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering, LTH, Lund University, Lund University, Sweden E-huset, Lund, 2014.
[2] L. Pisha, J. Warchall, T. Zubatiy, S. Hamilton, C. H. Lee, G. Chockalingam, et al., "A Wearable, Extensible, Open-Source Platform for Hearing Healthcare Research," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 162083-162101, 2019, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2951145.
[3] D. Kanemoto, T. Ido, and K. Taniguchi, "A 7.5 mW 101dB SNR low-power high-performance audio delta-sigma modulator utilizing opamp sharing technique," in International SoC Design Conference, 2011, pp. 66-69. doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.920329.
[4] M. G. Kim, G.-C. Ahn, P. K. Hanumolu, S.-H. Lee, S.-H. Kim, S.-B. You, et al., "A 0.9 V 92 dB double-sampled switched-RC delta-sigma audio ADC," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1195-1206, 2008. doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.920329.
[5] J. Sauerbrey, T. Tille, D. Schmitt-Landsiedel, and R. Thewes, "A 0.7-V MOSFET-only switched-opamp Sigma Delta modulator in standard digital CMOS technology," IEEE Journal of solid-state circuits, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1662-1669, 2002. doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.804330.
[6] F. Chen and B. Leung, "A 0.25-mW low-pass passive sigma-delta modulator with built-in mixer for a 10-MHz IF input," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 774-782, 1997. doi: 10.1109/4.585244.
[7] H. Luo, Y. Han, R. C. Cheung, X. Liu, and T. Cao, "A 0.8-V 230-µW 98-dB DR Inverter-Based Sigma Delta Modulator for Audio Applications," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 2430-2441, 2013. doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2275659.
[8] Y. Lin and M. Ismail, "Time-based all-digital sigma–delta modulators for nanometer low voltage CMOS data converters," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 73, pp. 801-808, 2012. doi: 10.1007/s10470-012-9901-0.
[9] J. K. Fiorenza, T. Sepke, P. Holloway, C. G. Sodini, and H.-S. Lee, "Comparator-based switched-capacitor circuits for scaled CMOS technologies," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 2658-2668, 2006. doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.884330.
[10] S. Ranganathan and Y. Tsividis, "Discrete-time parametric amplification based on a three-terminal MOS varactor: Analysis and experimental results," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 2087-2093, 2003. doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.819162.
[11] P. M. Figueiredo and J. C. Vital, "The MOS capacitor amplifier," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 111-115, 2004. doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2003.822427.
[12] A. Yoshizawa and S. Iida, "A gain-boosted discrete-time charge-domain FIR LPF with double-complementary MOS parametric amplifiers," in 2008 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference-Digest of Technical Papers, 2008, pp. 68-596. doi: 10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523060.
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[14] A. J. S. Alizadeh Zanjani, P. Torkzadeh, "Design and simulation of ultra-low-power sigma-delta converter using the fully differential inverter-based amplifier for digital hearing aids application," Journal of Intelligent Procedures in Electrical Technology, vol. 13, pp. 75-90, 2022.
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[16] N. C. Shirazi, A. Jannesari, and P. Torkzadeh, "Self-start-up fully integrated DC-DC step-up converter using body biasing technique for energy harvesting applications," AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 95, pp. 24-35, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.aeue.2018.07.033.
[17] J. R. Custódio, M. Figueiredo, E. Santin, and J. Goes, "A CMOS Inverter-Based Self-biased Fully Differential Amplifier," in Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation: First IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2010, Costa de Caparica, Portugal, February 22-24, 2010. Proceedings 1, 2010, pp. 541-548. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-11628-5_60.
[18] J. S. Cho, C. Rhee, S. Kim, Y. Yang, J. Jun, S. Kim, et al., "A 1.2-V 108.9-dB A-Weighted DR 101.4-dB SNDR Audio $\Sigma\Delta $ ADC Using a Multi-Rate Noise-Shaping Quantizer," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 1315-1319, 2018. doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2018.2853189.
[19] P. Li, W. Xi, X. Zeng, X. Li, and D. Zheng, "A Small-Area, Low-Power Delta-Sigma DAC Applied to a Power-Specific Chip," Journal of Sensors, vol. 2021, p. 6630100, 2021/05/25 2021. doi: 10.1155/2021/6630100.
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[23] X.-P. Di, W.-P. Chen, L. Yin, and X.-W. Liu, "A 99.7-dB DR fourth-order sigma–delta modulator for digital gyroscope sensor," Modern Physics Letters B, vol. 31, no. 09, p. 1750097, 2017. doi:10.1142/S021798491750097X.
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[30] J. R. Custódio, J. Goes, N. Paulino, J. P. Oliveira, and E. Bruun, "A 1.2-V 165-μW 0.29-mm² Multibit Sigma-Delta ADC for Hearing Aids Using Nonlinear DACs and With Over 91 dB Dynamic-Range," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 376-385, 2013. doi:10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2203819.
[31] Wang B, Sin SW, Seng-Pan U, Maloberti F, Martins RP. "A 550µW 20-kHz BW 100.8-dB SNDR Linear-Exponential Multi-Bit Incremental Sigma Delta ADC With 256 Clock Cycles in 65-nm CMOS", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 Jan 8; vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1161-1172, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2888872.
[32] H. Jeon, J. -S. Bang, Y. Jung, I. Choi and M. Je, "A High DR, DC-Coupled, Time-Based Neural-Recording IC With Degeneration R-DAC for Bidirectional Neural Interface," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 2658-2670, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2930903.
[33] S. Rout and W. Serdijn, “High-pass Δ converter design using a state space approach and its application to cardiac signal acquisition,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits Syst., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 483–494, Jun. 2018. doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2817926.
[34] S. -Y. Lee, P. -H. Su, K. -L. Huang, Y. -W. Hung and J. -Y. Chen, "High-Pass Sigma–Delta Modulator With Techniques of Operational Amplifier Sharing and Programmable Feedforward Coefficients for ECG Signal Acquisition," in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 443-453, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2021.3082545.
[35] M. Shahriary,A. Ghasemi and N. C. Shirazi, "Improvement of SNDR using Optimization of Feedback Path Coefficients for Second Order CRFB Modulators in Sigma-Delta Analog to Digital Converters," Journal of Southern Communication Engineering, vol. 11, no. 41, pp. 15-28, 2021.
