Hackaday

successive approximation

[Igor] made a VU meter with LEDs using 8 LEDs and 8 comparators. This is a fast way to get one of 8 bits to indicate an input voltage, but that’s only the equivalent of a 3-bit analog to digital ...
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

Challenges & Requirements: Voltage Reference Design for Precision Successive-Approximation ADCs, Part 3

Once the drive capability has been determined, we must ensure that the noise from the reference circuit does not affect the ADC’s performance. To preserve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and other ...
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

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 ...
Electronic Design

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