Smart ADC Architecture Reduces Pin Count |
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Friday, 11 May 2007 |
In today’s world of electronic design, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) play a pivotal role in translating real-world signals to digital representations. These digital signals are processed and manipulated to perform a variety of operations within a typical system. For high-speed ADCs, two innovation trends have pushed the technology along over the past few years. First, higher conversion rates are always needed. A wider signal bandwidth can be captured if the ADC samples and converts signals faster. Second, there is the drive toward increasing converter resolution. Increasing the number of bits within a converter improves characteristics such as signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range. These two goals have worked together to drive the data bandwidth to ever-increasing levels....more  (0) Comments
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