EDN

16-bit successive-approximation ADC includes LVDS interface

Dallas&#8212Texas Instruments says its ADS84xx is the industry's first 16-bit, successive approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) family to include a serial low-voltage differential ...
EDN

“Golden Gloves” A/D Converter Match, Round 2: Successive-approximation register vs. sigma-delta topology–Power Efficiency

After the seven-round fight back in April 2010 between the successive-approximation register (SAR) analog/digital converter (ADC) and the sigma-delta (S?) ADC, Figure 1, (click here to see the full ...
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 ...
Hackaday

Approximating An ADC With 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 ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

16-Bit Successive Approximation ADC Raises Performance Bars

Self crowned as the industry's highest-performance 16-bit successive approximation a/d converter, the AD7677 Pul SAR is also touted as being twice as fast, twice as precise, and four times more power ...
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

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 ...
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 ...