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	N. Rakuljic, I. Galton, "Suppression of Quantization-Induced Convergence Error in Pipelined ADCs With Harmonic Distortion Correction ", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.
	C.Venerus, I. Galton, "Delta-Sigma FDC Based Fractional- PLLs ", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.
	G.Taylor, I.Galton, " A reconfigurable mostly-digital ΔΣ ADC with a worst-case FOM of 160dB", 2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 166-167, June 13, 2012.
	N. Rakuljic, "A Generalized Tree-Structured DEM DAC and Enhanced Harmonic Distortion Correction in Pipelined ADCs", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2012.
	G.Taylor, "Mostly Digital ADCs for Highly-Scaled CMOS Processes", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2011.
	K.J. Wang, I. Galton, "A Discrete-Time Model for the Design of Type-II PLLs With Passive Sampled Loop Filters", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 264-275, February 2011.
	G.Taylor, I.Galton, "A Mostly Digital Variable-Rate Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulator ADC", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 2634-2646, December 2010.
	K. Wang, "Spur Reduction Techniques for Fractional-N PLLs ", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2010.
	G. Taylor, I. Galton, “A mostly digital variable-rate continuous-time ADC delta-sigma modulator”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2010, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 298 – 299, February 2010.
	I. Galton, “Why Dynamic-Element-Matching DACs Work”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 69 – 74, February 2010.
	N. Rakuljic, I. Galton, “Tree-Structured DEM DACs with Arbitrary Numbers of Levels”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 303 – 322, February 2010.
	A. Panigada, "Harmonic Distortion Correction in Pipelined Analog to Digital Converters", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2009.
	A.Panigada, I.Galton, "A 130 mW 100 MS/s Pipelined ADC with 69 dB SNDR Enabled by Digital Harmonic Distortion Correction", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Cirtuits, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 3314-3328, December 2009.
	A. Panigada, I. Galton, "A 130mW 100MS/s Pipelined ADC with 69dB SNDR Enabled by Digital Harmonic Distortion Correction", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2009, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 162-163, February 2009.
	K. J. Wang, A. Swaminathan, I. Galton, "Spurious Tone Suppression Techniques Applied to a Wide-Bandwidth 2.4 GHz Fractional-N PLL", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 2787 – 2797, December 2008.
	K. L. Chan, N. Rakuljic, I. Galton, "Segmented Dynamic Element Matching for High-Resolution Digital-to-Analog Conversion", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 3383 – 3392, December 2008.
	K. L. Chan, J. Zhu, I. Galton, "Dynamic Element Matching to Prevent Nonlinear Distortion From Pulse-Shape Mismatches in High-Resolution DACs", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 2067 – 2078, September 2008.
	K. J. Wang, A. Swaminathan, I. Galton, "Spurious-Tone Suppression Techniques Applied to a Wide-Bandwidth 2.4GHz Fractional-N PLL", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 342-343, 618, February 2008.
	K. L. Chan, "High Speed, High Resolution Digital-to-Analog Converters", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2007.
	A. Swaminathan, K. J. Wang, I. Galton, "A Wide-Bandwidth 2.4 GHz ISM Band Fractional-N PLL With Adaptive Phase Noise Cancellation", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 2639 – 2650, December 2007.
	A. Swaminathan, A. Panigada, E. Masry, I. Galton, "A digital requantizer with shaped requantization noise that remains well behaved after non-linear distortion", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 5382 – 5394, November 2007.
	K. L. Chan, J. Zhu, I. Galton, "A 150MS/s 14-bit Segmented DEM DAC with Greater than 83dB of SFDR Across the Nyquist band", 2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, pp. 200 – 201, June 14, 2007.
	S. Pamarti, I. Galton, "LSB Dithering in MASH Delta–Sigma D/A Converters", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 779 – 790, April 2007.
	S. Pamarti, J. Welz, I. Galton, "Statistics of the Quantization Noise in 1-Bit Dithered Single-Quantizer Digital Delta–Sigma Modulators", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 492 – 503, March 2007.
	A. Swaminathan, K. Wang, I. Galton, "A Wide-Bandwidth 2.4GHz ISM-Band Fractional-N PLL with Adaptive Phase-Noise Cancellation", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007. Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 302 – 604, February 2007.
	A. Swaminathan, "Enabling Techniques for Low Power, High Performance Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2006.
	A. Panigada, I. Galton, "Digital Background Correction of Harmonic Distortion in Pipelined ADCs", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Regular Papers, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 1885 – 1895, September 2006.
	J. Rode, A. Swaminathan, I. Galton, P. M. Asbeck, "Fractional-N direct digital frequency synthesis with a 1-bit output", IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, pp. 415 – 418, June 2006.
	K. L. Chan, I. Galton, "A 14b 100MS/s DAC with Fully Segmented Dynamic Element Matching", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 2390 – 2399, February 2006.
	J.L. Ceballos, I. Galton, G.C. Temes, "Stochastic analog-to-digital conversion", 48th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2005, pp. 855 – 858, August 2005.
	S. Pamarti, L. Jansson, I. Galton, "Addition to “A Wideband 2.4-GHz Delta-Sigma Fractional-$N$PLL With 1-Mb/s In-Loop Modulation”", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 559 – 559, February 2005.
	M. Y. Li, I. Galton, L. E. Larson, P. M. Asbeck, "Nonlinearity estimation and spectral regrowth prediction of power amplifiers using correlation techniques", The 2005 IEEE Annual Conference Wireless and Microwave Technology, pp. 170 – 173, 2005.
	E. Siragusa, I. Galton, "Adigitally enhanced 1.8-V 15-bit 40-MSample/s CMOS pipelined ADC", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 2126 – 2138, December 2004.
	M. Y. Li, I. Galton, L. E. Larson, P. M. Asbeck, "Correlation techniques for estimation of amplifier nonlinearity", 2004 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, pp. 179 – 182, September 2004.
	S. Ye, I. Galton, "Techniques for phase noise suppression in recirculating DLLs", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 1222 – 1230, August 2004.
	J. Welz, I. Galton, "A tight signal-band power bound on mismatch noise in a mismatch-shaping digital-to-analog converter", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 593 – 607, April 2004.
	S. Pamarti, L. Jansson, I. Galton, "A wideband 2.4-GHz delta-sigma fractional-NPLL with 1-Mb/s in-loop modulation", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 49 – 62, January 2004.
	E. Siragusa, I. Galton, "A digitally enhanced 1.8 V 15 b 40 MS/s CMOS pipelined ADC", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2004. Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 452 – 538, February 2004.
	S. Pamarti, "Enabling Techniques for Wide Bandwidth Fractional-N Phase Locked Loops", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2003.
	S. Ye, "Phase Realignment and Phase Noise Suppression in PLLs and DLLs", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2003.
	E. Siragusa, "Digitally Enhanced High Resolution Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Conversion", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2003.
	S. Pamarti, I. Galton, "Phase-noise cancellation design tradeoffs in delta-sigma fractional-N PLLs", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 829 – 838, November 2003.
	S. Ye, L. Jansson,I. Galton, "Techniques for in-band phase noise suppression in re-circulating DLLs", Proceedings of the IEEE 2003 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 297 – 300, September 2003.
	J. Welz, "The Analysis and Design of Mismatch Shaping Digital-to-Analog Converters", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2002.
	S. Ye, L. Jansson, I. Galton, "A multiple-crystal interface PLL with VCO realignment to reduce phase noise", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1795 – 1803, December 2002.
	J. Welz, I. Galton, "Necessary and sufficient conditions for mismatch shaping in a general class of multibit DACs", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 748-759, December 2002.
	J. Keyzer, R. Uang, Y. Sugiyama, M. Iwamoto, I. Galton, P. M. Asbeck, "Generation of RF pulsewidth modulated microwave signals using delta-sigma modulation", Microwave Symposium Digest, 2002 IEEE MTT-S International, vol. 1, June 2002.
	A. Fishov, E. Siragusa, J. Welz, E. Fogleman, I. Galton, "Segmented mismatch-shaping D/A conversion", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2002, pp. IV-679 - IV-682, May 2002.
	J. Welz, I. Galton, "A necessary and sufficient condition for mismatch shaping in multi-bit DACs", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2002, pp. I-105 - I-108, May 2002.
	P. Asbeck, I. Galton, K.-C. Wang, J. F. Jensen, A. K. Oki, C. T. M. Chang, "Digital signal processing-up to microwave frequencies", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 900-909, March 2002, invited paper.
	J. Grilo, I. Galton, K. Wang, R. Montemayor, "A 12 mW ADC delta-sigma modulator with 80dB of dynamic range integrated in a single-chip Bluetooth transceiver", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 271 – 278, March 2002.
	S. Ye, L. Jansson, I. Galton, "A multiple-crystal interface PLL with VCO realignment to reduce phase noise", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2002. Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 78-79, 446, February 2002.
	G. Chang, L. Jansson, K. Wang, J. Grilo, R. Montemayor, C. Hull, M. Lane, A. X. Estrada, M. Anderson, I. Galton, S. V. Kishore, "A direct-conversion single-chip radio-modem for Bluetooth", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 88-89, 448, February 2002.
	I. Galton, "Delta-sigma data conversion in wireless transceivers", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 302-316, January 2002, invited paper.
	J. Welz, I. Galton, E. Fogleman, "Simplified logic for first-order and second-order mismatch-shaping digital-to-analog converters", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 1014-1028, November 2001.
	P. M. Asbeck, L. E. Larson, I. Galton, "Synergistic design of DSP and power amplifiers for wireless communications", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 2163-2169, November 2001.
	J. Grilo, I. Galton, K. Wang, R. Montemayor, "A 12 mW ADC delta-sigma modulator with 80dB of dynamic range integrated in A Single-Chip Bluetooth Transceiver", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2001, pp. 23-26, May 2001.
	J. Welz, I. Galton, "The mismatch-noise PSD from a tree-structured DAC in a second-order DS modulator with a midscale input", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. Vol. 4, pp. 2625-2628, May 2001.
	J. Keyzer, J. Hinrichs, A. Metzger, M. Iwamoto, I. Galton, P. Asbeck, "Digital generation of RF signals for wireless communications with band-pass delta-sigma modulation", IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, pp. 2127-2130, May 2001.
	E. Fogleman, J. Welz, I. Galton, "An audio ADC Delta-Sigma modulator with 100-dB peak SINAD and 102-dB DR using a second-order mismatch-shaping DAC", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 339-348, March 2001.
	E. Fogleman, I. Galton, "A digital common-mode rejection technique for differential analog-to-digital conversion", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 255 – 271, March 2001.
	E. Fogleman, I. Galton, "A dynamic element matching technique for reduced-distortion multibit quantization in delta-sigma ADCs", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 158-170, February 2001.
	E. Fogleman, "Enabling Techniques for High-Resolution Analog-to-Digital Conversion in IC Fabrication Processes Optimized for Digital Circuits", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2000.
	E. Fogleman, J. Welz, I. Galton, "An audio ADC Delta-Sigma modulator with 100 dB peak SINAD and 102 dB DR using a second-order mismatch-shaping DAC", Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 17 – 20, May 2000.
	E. J. Siragusa, I Galton, "Gain error correction technique for pipelined analogue-to-digital converters", IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 617-618, March 30, 2000.
	I. Galton, "Digital Cancellation of D/A Converter Noise in Pipelined A/D Converters", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 185-196, March 2000.
	E. Fogleman, I. Galton, W. Huff, H. T. Jensen, "A 3.3V single-poly CMOS audio ADC delta-sigma modulator with 98dB peak SINAD and 105dB peak SFDR", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 297-307, March 2000.
	E. Fogleman, I. Galton, H.T. Jensen, "A dynamic element matching technique for reduced-distortion multibit quantization in delta-sigma ADCs", Proceeding of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 290 – 293, June 1999.
	E. Fogleman, I. Galton, H.T. Jensen, "An area-efficient differential input ADC with digital common mode rejection", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 347 – 350, June 1999.
	E. Fogleman, I. Galton, W. Huff, H.T. Jensen, "A 3.3V single-poly CMOS audio ADC delta-sigma modulator with 98 dB Peak SINAD", Proceedings of the IEEE 1999 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 121 – 124, May 1999.
	I. Galton, W. Huff, P. Carbone, E. Siragusa, "A delta-sigma PLL for 14b 50kSample/s frequency-to-digital conversion of a 10 MHz FM signal", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 2042-2053, December 1998.
	H.T. Jensen and I. Galton, "An analysis of the partial randomization dynamic element matching technique", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 1538-1549, December 1998.
	H.T. Jensen, I. Galton, "A reduced-complexity mismatch-shaping DAC for delta-sigma data converters", Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 504-507, May 1998.
	W. Huff, I. Galton, "Nonuniform-to-uniform decimation for delta-sigma frequency-to-digital conversion", Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 365-368, May 1998.
	I. Galton, W. Huff, P. Carbone, E. Siragusa, "A delta-sigma PLL for 14b 50kSample/s frequency-to-digital conversion of a 10 MHz FM signal", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1998. Digest of Technical Papers, vol. 41, pp. 366-367, February 1998.
	H.T. Jensen and I. Galton, "A low-complexity dynamic element matching DAC for direct digital synthesis", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 13-27, January 1998.
	E.T. King, A. Eshraghi, I. Galton, T.S. Fiez, "A Nyquist-rate delta-sigma A/D converter", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 45-52, January 1998.
	H.T. Jensen, "Analyses of Dynamic Element Matching Techniques for Data Conversion", University of California, San Diego, 1997.
	I. Galton, "Spectral shaping of circuit errors in digital-to-analog converters", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 808-817, November 1997.
	H.T. Jensen, I. Galton, "A performance analysis of the partial randomization dynamic element matching DAC architecture", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1997, vol. 1, pp. 9-12, June 1997.
	H.T. Jensen, I. Galton, "Yield estimation of a first-order noise-shaping D/A converter", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1997, vol. 1, pp. 441-444, June 1997.
	I. Galton and H.T. Jensen, "Oversampling parallel delta-sigma modulator A/D conversion", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 801-810, May 1996.
	I. Galton, "Noise-shaping D/A converters for delta-sigma modulation", Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 441 – 444, May 1996.
	I. Galton, H.T. Jensen, J.J. Rosenberg, D.A. Towne, "Clock distribution using coupled oscillators", Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, pp. 217-220, May 1996.
	H.T. Jensen, I. Galton, "A hardware-efficient DAC for direct digital synthesis", Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, pp. 97-100, May 1996.
	I. Galton and H.T. Jensen, "Delta-sigma modulator based A/D conversion without oversampling", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog to Digital Signal Processing, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 773-784, December 1995.
	I. Galton and P. Carbone, "A rigorous analysis of D/A conversion with dynamic element matching", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 763-772, December 1995.
	I. Galton, "Analog-input digital phase-locked loops for precise frequency and phase demodulation", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Processing, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 621-630, November 1995.
	H.T. Jensen, I. Galton, "A robust parallel delta-sigma A/D converter architecture", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1995, vol. 2, pp. 1340-1343, May 1995.
	I. Galton, "A practical second-order delta-sigma frequency-to-digital converter", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1995, vol. 1, pp. 5-8, May 1995.
	E. King, F. Aram, T. Fiez, I. Galton, "Parallel delta-sigma A/D conversion", Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1994, pp. 503-506, May 1994.
	I. Galton, "Higher-order delta-sigma frequency-to-digital conversion", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1994, vol. 5, pp. 441-444, May 1994.
	P. Carbone, I. Galton, "Conversion error in D/A employing dynamic element matching", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1994, vol. 2, pp. 13-16, May 1994.
	I. Galton, "Granular quantization noise in a class of delta-sigma modulators", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 848-859, May 1994.
	I. Galton, "Granular quantization noise in the first-order delta-sigma modulator", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1944-1956, November 1993.
	I. Galton, G. Zimmerman, "Combined RF phase extraction and digitization", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1993, vol. 2, pp. 1104 – 1107, May 1993.
	I. Galton, "One-bit dithering in delta-sigma modulator-based D/A conversion", Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1993, vol. 2, pp. 1310 – 1313, May 1993.
	I. Galton, "An efficient three point arc algorithm", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 44-49, 1989.

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