EDN

Not your grandfather’s ADC: RF sampling ADCs offer advantages in systems design

The data converter has acted as the bridge between the analog (real) world and the digital world for a few decades now. Starting with discrete elements that took up multiple rack spaces and burnt lots ...
Electronics Weekly

Imec develops 3.2GSps RF-sampling ADC

Imec has developed a compact, highly linear 3.2 giga-sample-per-second (GSps) RF-sampling ADC that uses ring amplification (ringamp). The ADC has a record low power consumption of 61.3mW and supports ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Simultaneous-Sampling 24-Bit ADC Is Cascadeable To 32 Channels

The MAX11040, a four-channel, 24-bit simultaneous-sampling ADC, enables up to eight devices can be daisy-chained to provide a sampling capacity of up to 32 channels. The MAX11040 achieves this high ...
EDN

Audio ADC buffer design secrets: Interfacing to audio ADC sampling circuits

There are several aspects of audio converter design that are generally not well understood but have a dramatic impact on performance, both measurable and audible. Audio converter IC manufacturers ...