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Design Methodologies for Sigma-Delta Converters

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Oversampling converters have become very popular due to their ability to solve problems found in other architectures, like the need for high-accuracy analog antialiasing filtering and the large sensitivity to circuit imperfections and noisy environments.

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Fernández, F.V., del Río, R., Castro-López, R., Guerra, O., Medeiro, F., Pérez-Verdú, B. (2003). Design Methodologies for Sigma-Delta Converters. In: Rodríguez-Vázquez, A., Medeiro, F., Janssens, E. (eds) CMOS Telecom Data Converters. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3724-0_15

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