An innovative FPGA-based ADC/DAC design using 1-bit adaptive-delta modulation

Abstract

The Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), with its wide variety of applications in the electronics and communication domains, is the most crucial unit in every digital gadget. This paper discusses a smart way of converting an input analog signal to its digital counterpart using an innovative Adaptive-Delta modulator, followed by a signal reconstruction process to retrieve the original message. It has done the design in Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB) Simulink, and the hardware implementation is tested on the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX45 FPGA core. This design aims for high-accuracy conversion and optimization of hardware resources. The 1-bit adaptive model is superior in comparison to the traditional delta modulation (DM) scheme while tracking stiff analog input signals, producing a much lower mean square error. The implementation is quite simple as it uses the transmission of 1-bit digital data at a time. On the receiver side, digital-toanalog conversion (DAC) makes use of the same adaptive logic in reconstructing the original input signal. The designed prototype demonstrates its resistance to a wide range of input amplitude and frequency variations. The ADC-DAC design method in this paper is accurate, makes the best use of resources, and is easy to use.