Electronic Design

Squeeze 10-Bit Performance From An 8-Bit ADC, Part 2: Triangular Dithering

Part 1 of this column (ED Online 18899) showed how designers can use additive dither and oversampling to increase the resolution of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In this edition, we will ...
Electronic Design

Squeeze 10-Bit Performance From An 8-Bit ADC, Part 3: Self-Dithering ADCs

If the input signal moves at least the analog-to-digital converter’s (ADC’s) resolution (Δ) over the time it takes to take multiple samples, the average result of these multiple signals will increase ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An 8 Bit To 12 Bit Resolution Programmable 5 MSample/s Current Steering Digital-To-Analog Converter In A 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS Technology

We present a 5 MSample/s current steering digital-to-analog converter which has a programmable resolution between 8 bit, 10 bit and 12 bit. A selectable 2-D unary matrix architecture and a resolution ...
Electronics Weekly

8-bit ADC for low power designs

National Semiconductor claims to have cut the power consumption of 8-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) designs with a dual channel CMOS device. The ADC08D1000 will digitise two input signals to ...
EDN

Lowest-power 8-bit ADC achieves gigahertz range

High-speed device requires 75% less power than most comparable parts on the market Targeting test and measurement applications, the ADC081000 A/D converter uses 75% less power than most comparable ...
EDN

8-BIT MCU family packs 16-Bit, 1Msps ADC on-chip

— C8051F064 Offers 16-Bit, 1Msps ADC for the Price of a Standalone ADC AUSTIN, Texas — Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced the new C8051F064 product family of precision mixed-signal ...
Electronics Weekly

Scope gets 10-bit ADC for precision

Agilent Technologies has added a higher precision 10-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) capable of a signal sampling rate of 40Gsample/s to its range of 8GHz oscilloscopes. According to Agilent, ...