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In this work, we consider the acquisition of stationary signals using uniform analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), i.e., employing uniform sampling and scalar uniform quantization. We jointly optimize the pre-sampling and reconstruction…

Conventional analog and mixed-signal (AMS) circuit designs heavily rely on manual effort, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. This paper presents a fully automated design methodology for Successive Approximation Register (SAR)…

Two important attributes of analog to digital converters (ADCs) are its sampling rate and dynamic range. The sampling rate should be greater than or equal to the Nyquist rate for bandlimited signals with bounded energy. It is also desired…

Today's communication systems typically use high resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). However, considering future communication systems with data rates in the order of 100Gbit/s the ADC power consumption becomes a major factor…

In future high-capacity wireless systems based on mmWave or massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO), the power consumption of receiver Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) is a concern. Although hybrid or analog systems with fewer ADCs…

In this paper, we consider the downlink of a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) single user transmission system operating in the millimeter wave outdoor narrowband channel environment. We propose a novel receive spatial…

The proposed delta-sigma modulator ($\Delta\Sigma$M) based signal acquisition architecture uses a differential difference amplifier (DDA) customized for dual purpose roles, namely as instrumentation amplifier and as integrator of…

Target parameter estimation in active sensing, and particularly radar signal processing, is a long-standing problem that has been studied extensively. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for target parameter estimation in cases where…

In a growing number of applications, there is a need to digitize a (possibly high) number of correlated signals whose spectral characteristics are challenging for traditional analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Examples, among others,…

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have emerged as a promising technology for reducing power consumption and complexity in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems while maintaining satisfactory spectral and…

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.…

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) provide the link between continuous-time signals and their discrete-time counterparts, and the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem provides the mathematical foundation. Real-world signals have a variable…

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is currently the paradigm of choice to interconnect the different components of System-on-Chips (SoCs) or Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs). As the levels of integration continue to grow, however, current NoCs face…

Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) are a major contributor to the energy consumption on the receiver side of millimeter-wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with large antenna arrays. Consequently, there has been significant…

In this work, we investigate dynamic oversampling techniques for large-scale multiple-antenna systems equipped with low-cost and low-power 1-bit analog-to-digital converters at the base stations. To compensate for the performance loss…

In this contribution, it is proposes to limit the quantization search space of a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter through an analytic derivation of maximum possible sample-to-sample variation. The presented example…

Sampling shift-invariant (SI) signals with a high dynamic range poses a notable challenge in the domain of analog-to-digital conversion (ADC). It is essential for the ADC's dynamic range to exceed that of the incoming analog signal to…

Analog to digital converters (ADCs) act as a bridge between the analog and digital domains. Two important attributes of any ADC are sampling rate and its dynamic range. For bandlimited signals, the sampling should be above the Nyquist rate.…

In general, real world signals are analog in nature. To capture these signals for further processing, or transmission, signals are converted into digital bits using analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In this conversion, a good amount of…

In task-based quantization, a multivariate analog signal is transformed into a digital signal using a limited number of low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). This process aims to minimize a fidelity criterion, which is…