Calibration ADC and algorithm for adaptive predistortion of high-speed DACs
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this thesis, the design and implementation of circuits and signal processing algorithms required for digital predistortion of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with an open-loop driver is presented. On the circuit design side, the implementation of a high precision, high acquisition-bandwidth calibration analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for sampling the DAC output is discussed. The ADC has a cyclic core and a variant of the switched-RC sampling network suitable for high frequency operation. It is implemented in 90-nm CMOS and achieves an SFDR of higher than 72 dB for input frequencies under 500 MHz. On the signal processing side, a calibration algorithm is presented that uses the input/output data of the DAC to identify its nonlinearity and cancel it through digital predistortion. The algorithm represents a novel technique for the linearization of Hammerstein systems with low computational cost and is suitable for hardware realization. Overall, this calibration architecture improves the SFDR of the DAC by close to 30 dB to achieve a final linearity of 53 dB for input frequencies up to 400 MHz and peak-to-peak differential output swing of 800 mV.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Dastgheib, Alireza | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. | |
| Primary advisor | Murmann, Boris | |
| Thesis advisor | Murmann, Boris | |
| Thesis advisor | Poon, Ada Shuk Yan | |
| Thesis advisor | Wooley, Bruce A, 1943- | |
| Advisor | Poon, Ada Shuk Yan | |
| Advisor | Wooley, Bruce A, 1943- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alireza Dastgheib. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Alireza Dastgheib
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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