Low-Bit Quantization Methods for Modulated Wideband Converter Compressed Sensing

This paper studies the impacts of low-bit quantization to wideband signal reconstruction with a sub-Nyquist sampling scheme Modulated Wideband Converter (MWC). Several real types of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are firstly simulated to the MWC and their results on wideband signal reconstruction are compared based on the low-bit criterion of the ADCs. Assessing the wideband reconstruction performances, this study proposes a trade-off between the oversampling factor, the number of bits and the type of quantizer, which can achieve the performance of reconstruction as close as possible to the ideal reconstruction.