Electronic Design

An Inside Look at High-Speed ADC Accuracy

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Rob Reeder, Senior System Application Engineer, Analog Devices Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used in a wide ...
Electronic Design

Should You Use Audio ADCs For Precision Applications?

There’s another dimension to the THD versus linearity problem as well. This plot represents the linearity error for every code for an 18-bit precision ADC. Using ...
EDN

Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) accuracy in simple terms

The previous blog discussed how makers can select an A/D converter by understanding the application and how manufacturers optimize a part for that role. Now, what happens when an A/D fires up—how ...
Nature

Analog-Digital Converter Design and Optimization

The design and optimisation of analog-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-analog converters (DACs) play a pivotal role in modern electronic systems, bridging the gap between the analog real world ...
EDN

Basics of ADCs and DACs, part 2

The most important thing to remember about both DACs and ADCs is that either the input or output is digital, and therefore the signal is quantized. That is, an N-bit word represents one of 2N possible ...