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In this work, the problem of signal parameter estimation from measurements acquired by a low-complexity analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with $1$-bit output resolution and an unknown quantization threshold is considered. Single-comparator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Manuel S. Stein , Shahar Bar , Josef A. Nossek , Joseph Tabrikian

In this paper we prove optimality of a certain class of Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs), which can be viewed as generalized Delta-Sigma Modulators (DSMs), with respect to a performance measure that can be characterized as the worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-23 Mitra Osqui , Alexandre Megretski

Two-channel modulo analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) enable high-dynamic-range signal sensing at the Nyquist rate per channel, but existing designs quantise both channel outputs independently, incurring redundant bitrate costs. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Wenyi Yan , Zeyuan Li , Lu Gan , Honqing Liu , Guoquan Li

This paper focuses on channel estimation for mmWave MIMO systems with 1-bit spatial sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The channel estimation performance with 1-bit spatial sigma-delta ADCs depends on the quantization noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Quantization plays a critical role in digital signal processing systems. Quantizers are typically designed to obtain an accurate digital representation of the input signal, operating independently of the system task, and are commonly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Quantizers take part in nearly every digital signal processing system which operates on physical signals. They are commonly designed to accurately represent the underlying signal, regardless of the specific task to be performed on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) play a critical role in digital signal acquisition across various applications, but their performance is inherently constrained by sampling rates and bit budgets. This bit budget imposes a trade-off…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Vaclav Pavlicek , Ayush Bhandari

We present a general problem formulation for optimal parameter estimation based on quantized observations, with application to antenna array communication and processing (channel estimation, time-of-arrival (TOA) and direction-of-arrival…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Amine Mezghani , Felix Antreich , Josef A. Nossek

Millimeter wave systems suffer from high power consumption and are constrained to use low resolution quantizers --digital to analog and analog to digital converters (DACs and ADCs). However, low resolution quantization leads to reduced data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip , Sundeep Rangan

In large-scale antenna systems, using one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has recently become important since they offer significant reductions in both power and cost. However, in contrast to high-resolution ADCs, the coarse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 In-soo Kim , Namyoon Lee , Junil Choi

The use of quantum annealers in black-box optimization to obtain the desired properties of a product with a small number of trials has attracted attention. However, the application of this technique to engineering design problems is still…

The fundamental limits of communication over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks are considered when a limited number of one-bit analog to digital converters (ADC) are used at the receiver terminals. Prior works have mainly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Abbas Khalili , Farhad Shirani , Elza Erkip , Yonina C. Eldar

Communication systems with low-resolution analog-to-digital-converters (ADCs) can exploit channel state information at the transmitter and receiver. This paper presents codebook designs and performance analyses for limited feedback MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Jianhua Mo , Robert W. Heath

High resolution analog to digital converters (ADCs) are conventionally used at the receiver terminals to store an accurate digital representation of the received signal, thereby allowing for reliable decoding of transmitted messages.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Abbas Khalili , Farhad Shirani , Elza Erkip , Yonina C. Eldar

The power consumption of high-speed, high-resolution analog to digital converters (ADCs) is a limiting factor in implementing large-bandwidth mm-wave communication systems. A mitigating solution, which has drawn considerable recent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Farhad Shirani , Hamidreza Aghasi

The quantum rectification effect observed on asymmetric superconducting loops is proposed to use as a basic of a noise detector with maximum sensitivity. The measurements show that a critical amplitude of noise or ac current decreases down…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Gurtovoi , S. V. Dubonos , R. V. Kholin , A. V. Nikulov , N. N. Osipov , V. A. Tulin

We aim at investigating the impact of low resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at the transmitter and low resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) at the receiver on the required bandwidth and the required signalto- noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

In order to reduce hardware complexity and power consumption, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems employ low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to acquire quantized measurements $\boldsymbol y$. This poses new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Shuai Huang , Deqiang Qiu , Trac D. Tran

Under which condition is quantization optimal? We address this question in the context of the additive uniform noise channel under peak amplitude and cost constraints. We compute analytically the capacity-achieving input distribution as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jonas Stapmanns , Catarina Dias , Luke Eilers , Tobias Kühn , Jean-Pascal Pfister

A general quantum noisy channel is analyzed, wherein the transmitted qubits may experience symmetry-breaking decoherence, along with memory effects. We find the optimal basis not to be fully entangled, but a combination of factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Goren Gordon , Gershon Kurizki