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Noise Shaping Sigma Delta DACs - ESS Technology, Inc.

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Non-linear Excess Phase<br />

• None-PSS noise is the biggest issue, but experiments<br />

suggest there are more problems. For example:<br />

Audiophiles rate as inferior systems that have variable<br />

excess phase<br />

– ΣΔ modulators have stability criteria that vary with amplitude and<br />

ultimately they become unstable as the signal reaches full-scale.<br />

– The HyperStream modulator is unconditionally stable up to full<br />

scale because the excess phase does not change with signal<br />

level<br />

ΣΔ/HyperStream 39 of<br />

44

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