IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics
Signal-Dependent Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on MINIMAX Sampling
Igors HOMJAKOVSMasanori HASHIMOTOTetsuya HIROSETakao ONOYE
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2013 Volume E96.A Issue 2 Pages 459-468

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This paper presents an architecture of signal-dependent analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on MINIMAX sampling scheme that allows achieving high data compression rate and power reduction. The proposed architecture consists of a conventional synchronous ADC, a timer and a peak detector. AD conversion is carried out only when input signal peaks are detected. To improve the accuracy of signal reconstruction, MINIMAX sampling is improved so that multiple points are captured for each peak, and its effectiveness is experimentally confirmed. In addition, power reduction, which is the primary advantage of the proposed signal-dependent ADC, is analytically discussed and then validated with circuit simulations.

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