Wideband Communication System Sensitivity to Quantization Noise.pdf

UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 38050 Povo – Trento (Italy), Via Sommarive 14 http://www.dit.unitn.it WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SENSITIVITY TO QUANTIZAZTION NOISE Antonio Moschitta, Dario Petri June 2004 Technical Report # DIT-04-056 . Wideband Communication System Sensitivity to Quantization Noise Antonio Moschitta, Dario Petri Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Perugia Via G. Duranti, 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy Phone: (+39) 0755853634 Fax: (+39) 0755853654 e-mail: moschitta@diei.unipg.it Abstract – The performances of A/D converters are usually character- ized in their granular region, by adopting amplitude limited sine-wave testing signals. However, some applications, like digital telecommuni- cation systems, often require the conversion of signals which noticea- bly differ from sine-waves and may introduce ADC overloading phe- nomena. In this paper, the A/D conversion of Gaussian distributed signal is investigated, both for PCM and Sigma-Delta converters. Then, the effects of quantization noise upon the behavior of a Digital Communication System are considered. By extending previous results, a model is introduced, which describes the BER performance of an OFDM system also in presence of overloading quantization noise, both for PCM and Sigma-Delta A/D converters. Keywords – A/D converters, Testing, Direct Digital Modulation, Or- thogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing. I. INTRODUCTION Most of the commonly used ADC characterizing procedures involve the usage of sine wave stimuli, whose amplitude range does not usu- ally saturate the converter under test [1]. However, some application fields may require the conversion of signals whose properties noticea- bly di