A New Method for Elimination of the Clock Jitter Effects in Continuous Time Delta-Sigma Modulators

In this paper the spectral density of the additive jitter noise in continuous time (CT) Delta-Sigma modulators (DSM) is derived analytically. Making use of the analytic results, extracted in this paper, a novel method for elimination of the damaging effects of the clock jitter in continuous time Delta-Sigma modulators is proposed. In this method instead of the conventional waveforms used in the feedback path of CT DSM’s such as the non return to-zero, the return to-zero, and the half delay return to-zero, an impulse waveform is employed. key words: Delta-Sigma modulator, continuous time, discrete time, clock jitter, feedback waveform, non return to-zero