QIN, JIFENG. A Low Noise, High Efficiency Envelope Modulator Structure for EDGE Polar Modulation. (Under the direction of Dr. Alex Q. Huang). Dynamic supply of power amplifiers in wireless transmitters can overcome the linearity-efficiency tradeoff issue in power amplifiers design, and envelope modulator is the key block in the dynamic supply system, low noise and high efficiency implementation...

The paper deals with a novel approach to processing of pressure sensor signals. A bandpass sigma-delta modulator is used for this purpose. This technique is relatively new and it is not used widely, because this kind of modulator is usually utilized for wireless and video applications. Since the bandpass sigma-delta modulator works within its defined band it is resistant to offsets of its subci...

H. J. De Los Santos et al., Radio Systems Engineering, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07326-2_2, © The Authors 2015 Abstract In this chapter, we present a number of topics surrounding modulation and demodulation. We begin by introducing system-level block diagrams of AM and FM/PM modulators and demodulators, and explaining their respective principles of operation. In particular, under the topic of AM Mo...

This paper discusses the design of picowatt power Sigma-delta modulator with genetic algorithm (GA) based oversampling technology. This Sigma-delta modulator design is paid special attention to its low power application of portable electronic system in digitizing biomedical signals such as Electro-cardiogram (ECG), Electroencephalogram (EEG) etc. [1]. A high performance, low power second order ...

This paper describes a new firstand second-order delta-sigma modulator concept where the first integrator is extracted and implemented by a frequency modulator with the modulating signal as the input. The result is a simple delta-sigma modulator with no need for digital-to-analog converters, allowing straight-forward multi-bit quantization. Without the frequency modulator, the circuit becomes a...

This paper proposes novel feedforward architecture of a second-order ΔΣAD modulator with single DACfeedback topology. ΔΣAD modulator realizes high resolution by oversampling and noise shaping technique. However, its SNDR (Signal to Noise and Distortion Ratio) is limited by the dynamic range of the input signal and non-idealities of building blocks, particularly by the harmonic distortion in amp...

N -continuous OFDM is a modulation technique that has a lower sidelobe than the original OFDM as a result of the continuous connection with its higher-order derivatives between the OFDM symbols. However, N -continuous OFDM has a high symbol error rate. In the present paper, we improve N -continuous OFDM without increasing the symbol error rate by using a selected mapping technique.