EDN

Challenges & Requirements: Voltage Reference Design for Precision Successive-Approximation ADCs, Part 1

Editor's note: We will publish this article in four sequential parts leading up to our “Ask the experts” session on Precision Voltage References on May 21. Alan Walsh will be one of our experts. The ...
Nature

Energy-Efficient Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters

Energy-efficient successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) represent a rapidly evolving field in microelectronics, where substantial progress has been made in ...
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 ...
Electronics Weekly

ISSCC: Background calibration boost for ADC

At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Analog Devices revealed a 20-bit 1Msample/s successive approximation ADC with 0.3ppm INL (integral non‑linearity). Key to this ...
Nature

Low-Power Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters

Low-power successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) represent a critical technology in modern electronic systems, seamlessly bridging the analogue and digital realms ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

ADC with Wide Input Common Mode Range Simplifies Analog Front-End Circuitry

Linear Technology introduces the LTC2311-16, a 16-bit, 5Msps successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with a wide rail-to-rail input common mode range. Instrumentation and medical ...
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 ...
Electronics Weekly

ISSCC: Incremental zoom ADCs, and others

Incremental zoom ADCs can be made in CMOS and are showing up in IoT sensing applications where high-resolution and accuracy has to be combined with low-power operation from low-voltage rails. In a ...
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 ...
EDN

Challenges & Requirements: Voltage Reference Design for Precision Successive-Approximation ADCs, Part 4

A poorly designed reference circuit can cause serious conversion errors. The most common manifestation of a reference issue is repeated or “stuck” codes from the ADC. This happens when noise on the ...