EDN

Demystifying the conversion error rate of high speed ADCs

Just like many other semiconductor components, High Speed Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) do not always perform perfectly, despite our best expectations. They have inherent limitations that permit ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

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 ...
Design-Reuse

UWB Time-interleaved ADC exploiting SAR

The current technology trend for Analog-to- Digital Converters (ADCs) is particularly keen on power reduction, together with high-speed performance. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate that both ...
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 ...