EDN

Measure an ADC’s offset and gain error

Many measurement applications require converting a slowly varying analog signal into digital with high accuracy and linearity. These often occur in industrial control, environmental monitoring, ...
Electronic Design

Should You Use Audio ADCs For Precision Applications?

There’s another dimension to the THD versus linearity problem as well. This plot represents the linearity error for every code for an 18-bit precision ADC. Using ...
Electronic Design

An Inside Look at High-Speed ADC Accuracy

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Rob Reeder, Senior System Application Engineer, Analog Devices Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used in a wide ...
EDN

Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) accuracy in simple terms

The previous blog discussed how makers can select an A/D converter by understanding the application and how manufacturers optimize a part for that role. Now, what happens when an A/D fires up—how ...
New Electronics

Imec introduces ‘state-of-the-art’ ADCs for base stations and smartphones

At this year’s IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits, imec – the research and innovation hub – has introduced two new, state-of-the-art ADCs for base stations and handsets. The base station ADC ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Deep Space Design Considerations

The linchpin technology in a deep space telescope is the ability to efficiently convert analog image sensor data into digital data in order to beam home high-resolution images of astronomical objects.