Electronic Design

SAR ADC Conversion Rates Jump To 4 Msamples/s

The hottest battleground today among analog-to-digital converter (ADC) suppliers is the successive-approximation register (SAR) arena. SARs serve the medical/industrial market with zero latency and ...
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Time Interleaving of Analog to Digital Converters: Calibration Techniques, Limitations & what to look in Time Interleaved ADC IP prior to licensing

Analog to digital converters have three key input ports along with data output ports as per digital resolution requirements. These inputs ports are Analog Signal, Reference and Clock. If we compare ...
EDN

AVR Analog to Digital Conversion (ADC) – Tutorial #13

Did You Know? The “real” world we are living in is Analog! Whether it is sound, light, temperature or humidity, all are continuously varying things. However, when we want to communicate with the ...
EDN

Let’s Compare SAR & Δ-Σ Converters for a Mux’d DAS, Part 1

Many high-performance data acquisition systems (DASs) used in instrumentation, medical equipment, industrial automation, and power-line monitoring demand wide bandwidth and precision signal ...
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Availability of New 16-bit 5MSps SAR ADC in 40nm Node Sets New Standards for High-Performance Data Conversion

The ADC supports single and continuous conversion modes and includes an extended sampling-time option, providing developers with the flexibility to optimize performance and power consumption based on ...
Electronic Design

Evaluating ADC and DAC Performance Characteristics

Functionality of ADC/DACs, their performance characteristics, and how they have been improved. Advantages, disadvantages, and applications of various ADC/DAC architectures. How ADC/DACs are used in ...