Quantization Reference Voltage of the Modulated Wideband Converter

Abstract: The Modulated Wideband Converter (MWC) is a recently proposed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on Compressive Sensing (CS) theory. Unlike conventional ADCs, its quantization reference voltage, which is important to the system performance, does not equal the maximum amplitude of original analog signal. In this paper, the quantization reference voltage of the MWC is theoretically analyzed and the conclusion demonstrates that the reference voltage is proportional to the square root of $q$, which is a trade-off parameter between sampling rate and number of channels. Further discussions and simulation results show that the reference voltage is proportional to the square root of $Nq$ when the signal consists of $N$ narrowband signals.