Electronic Design

Tighten The Gap Between ADC Datasheet Specs And The Real World

Intersil's Michael Steffes details how every semi company tests new analog-to-digital converter products in the lab in order to obtain data-sheet values for SFDR and SNR, then compares the test ...
EDN

ADC PCI cards stream gap-free at 200 MS/s

UltraFast UF2-2030 series PCI digitizer cards can continuously record a single channel at 200 Msamples/s or two channels at 100 Msamples/s. With one 8-bit A/D converter per channel, each of the series ...
EDN

Increasing ADC resolution by adding dither to DC signals

An EDN Design Idea (DI) presented a discussion of how to increase the resolution of an ADC by adding a non-deterministic, zero-mean, Gaussian noise dither waveform to a signal to be converted; then, ...
Electronic Design

Tighten The Gap Between ADC Datasheet Specs And The Real World (.PDF Download)

All high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) datasheets show specified performance that really should be considered an ideal response under the best of all possible test conditions. Most systems ...