EDN

ADC Basics, Part 3: Using Successive-Approximation Register ADC in Designs

Successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converters (SAR-ADC) are frequently the architecture of choice for medium-resolution applications. SAR products on the market can operate at maximum ...
EDN

Designing SAR ADC Anti-Aliasing Filters

Our guest author is Matthew Hann, SAR ADC Product Line Manager, Texas Instruments. One of the most challenging aspects in optimizing the performance of a successive-approximation-register ...
Business Wire

Analog Devices’ New Easy Drive™ SAR ADCs Simplify Design While Delivering Industry Leading Performance

WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) today introduced a new portfolio of next-generation 16-to-24-bit, ultra-high precision successive approximation register (SAR) ...
Nature

Analog-to-Digital Converter Design and Performance Optimization

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) transcribe continuous signals into digital form, underpinning applications from telecommunications and biomedical imaging to instrumentation. Key ADC architectures ...
Electronic Design

SAR ADC Conversion Rates Jump To 4 Msamples/s

The hottest battleground today among analog-to-digital converter (ADC) suppliers is the successive-approximation register (SAR) arena. SARs serve the medical/industrial market with zero latency and ...
Design-Reuse

UWB Time-interleaved ADC exploiting SAR

The current technology trend for Analog-to- Digital Converters (ADCs) is particularly keen on power reduction, together with high-speed performance. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate that both ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between SAR and Delta-Sigma ADCs?

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Today, almost every electronic product contains an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). When designing a new product, one ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A 10.5 μW Programmable SAR ADC Frontend With SC Preamplifier For Low-Power IoT Sensor Nodes

A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) with a switched-capacitor programmable gain switched preamplifier (SC PGSA), as a basic component of an integrated ultra-low ...
Design-Reuse

Scalable Architectures for Analog IP on Advanced Process Nodes

Design teams tackling mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) designs face the problem of how to get the most out of advanced process technologies when it comes to implementing their analog IP. They need to ...
The Engineer

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) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) with no cycle latency and no pipeline ...