Re: AD5791

On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:38:57 -0400, Steve Goldstein
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On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:21:33 -0700, boB <boB@K7IQ.com> wrote:
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I'm not sure why ADI calls their Sigma-Delta rather than Delta-Sigma.
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Delta-Sigma is at least in the correct order for an A/D converter of
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They were called Delta-Sigma (using the upper-case Greek characters)
in the original paper by Inose, Yasuda, and Murakami (IRE Trans. Space
Electron. Telemetry, vol. 8, pp 205-209, Sep 1962) and in quite a
number of subsequent papers.
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Whether they're called Sigma-Delta or Delta-Sigma seems to be almost a
religious argument.

We were happy to be able to use real hardware in the late 1980s.
Crytal Semiconductor at first I think.

The way I look at it, the delta part is the input and then the sigma
from decimation and filtering.  They worked really well for the time.

boB