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Analyzing ADC SNR, SFDR in high-speed apps

High-performance A/D converters (ADCs) used in wireless base stations, high-speed data acquisition, test and measurement, medical imaging, and military applications require high-performance ...
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ADC/clock synthesizer combo claims highest dynamic range, SNR

Dallas, Tex. — Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has introduced a 16-bit, single-channel, 135 mega samples per second (MSPS) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a low-jitter clock synthesizer. The ...
Electronic Design

Noise Spectral Density: A “New” ADC Metric?

Over the past decades, the high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) performance metric that mattered to most has changed, albeit slowly. Primarily as a result of signal acquisition systems’ ever ...
Electronic Design

SAR ADC Provides 20dB SNR Improvement over Pipelined ADCs

Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2387-18, an ultrafast 15Msps, 18-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with no cycle latency and no pipeline ...