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AssigneeAT&T Bell Laboratories
InventorSteven R. Norsworthy
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Technique for adding a dither signal to a sigma-delta modulator to remove low level tones and periodic noise in the desired passband of the modulator when no, or a very low, signal is present (idle). The dither signal is a high-level signal added to the imput of an quantizer in the modulator, the normalized power in the AC component thereof being at least about ##EQU1## of the square of the quantizer step, where N is the order of the modulator. No significant reduction in the dynamic range of the modulator results. The technique may also be applied to multiple order sigma-delta modulators as well as to multiple stage sigma-delta modulators. Further, the dither may be added at any point in the modulator with suitable filtering of the dither. The transfer function of the filter is proportional to the noise shaping transfer function of the modulator between the point of addition of the dither and the input to the quantizer.
A sigma-delta modulator having:
A multi-stage sigma-delta modulator having a plurality of stages, at least one stage having:
A sigma-delta modulator having:
A multi-stage sigma-delta modulator having a plurality of stages, one stage being the least significant stage, at least one stage having:
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