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Noise Shaping Sigma Delta DACs - ESS Technology, Inc.

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The Trick is “<strong>Noise</strong> <strong>Shaping</strong>”<br />

• This method of making the error average out to zero is<br />

called “<strong>Noise</strong> <strong>Shaping</strong>”<br />

– It is so called because it does not just ignore the quantization<br />

noise: it keeps track of it, and reduces the average to zero<br />

• In the “Gas Price” example, the cashier adds up the error<br />

and gives you back a penny every now and again to stop<br />

the error accumulating<br />

ΣΔ/HyperStream 10 of<br />

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