Electronic Design

Fast ADC Facilitates Direct RF Sampling at Higher Frequencies

The critical component in all digital communications receivers is the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC sampling rate, bandwidth, and noise tolerance establishes the specifications and ...
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Signal Chain Basics #160: Making sense of coherent and noncoherent sampling in data ...

Bad Fast Fourier Transfer (FFT) data captures can cause you to misunderstand the true performance of your analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Some engineers like to coherently sample and capture data ...
Electronic Design

Gigasample ADCs Promise Direct RF Conversion

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. As analog-to-digital converter (ADC) designs and architectures continue to advance using smaller geometry process nodes ...
EDN

Accurately measure ADC driving-circuit settling time by shifting sampling edge

[Editor's note to readers: this article has several corrections: Figure 3 is corrected; also, some math symbols in equations in “Averaging to Achieve Better Resolution” and in “Bias Current ...
Embedded

Leveraging FPGA and CPLD digital logic to implement analog to digital converters

Designers of digital systems are familiar with implementing the 'leftovers' of their digital design by using FPGAs and CPLDs to glue together various processors, memories, and standard function ...