EDN

Challenges & Requirements: Voltage Reference Design for Precision Successive-Approximation ADCs, Part 1

Editor's note: We will publish this article in four sequential parts leading up to our “Ask the experts” session on Precision Voltage References on May 21. Alan Walsh will be one of our experts. The ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A 10.5 ÎĽW Programmable SAR ADC Frontend With SC Preamplifier For Low-Power IoT Sensor Nodes

A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) with a switched-capacitor programmable gain switched preamplifier (SC PGSA), as a basic component of an integrated ultra-low ...
Nature

Low-Power Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters

Low-power successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) represent a critical technology in modern electronic systems, seamlessly bridging the analogue and digital realms ...
Hackaday

Homebrew Circuit Explores The Mysteries Of Analog-to-Digital Conversion

When it comes to getting signals from an analog world into our computers, most of us don’t give much thought to how the hardware that does the job works. But as it turns out, there are a number of ...
Nature

Energy-Efficient Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters

Energy-efficient successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) represent a rapidly evolving field in microelectronics, where substantial progress has been made in ...
Electronic Design

Sampling ADC Breaks Speed Barrier Without Compromising Power

Precision, speed, low power, and size are attractive attributes of successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). These features have made SAR ADCs popular with designers ...
EDN

ADC Basics, Part 3: Using Successive-Approximation Register ADC in Designs

Successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converters (SAR-ADC) are frequently the architecture of choice for medium-resolution applications. SAR products on the market can operate at maximum ...
Electronic Design

ADC with Wide Input Common Mode Range Simplifies Analog Front-End Circuitry

Linear Technology introduces the LTC2311-16, a 16-bit, 5Msps successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with a wide rail-to-rail input common mode range. Instrumentation and medical ...
Electronics Weekly

ISSCC: Background calibration boost for ADC

At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Analog Devices revealed a 20-bit 1Msample/s successive approximation ADC with 0.3ppm INL (integral non‑linearity). Key to this ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Scalable Architectures for Analog IP on Advanced Process Nodes

Design teams tackling mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) designs face the problem of how to get the most out of advanced process technologies when it comes to implementing their analog IP. They need to ...