Electronic Design

Digging Deeper: The ABCs Of AFE ADCs

The three most popular ADC types generally found in analog front ends are successive-approximation (a), pipelined (b), and delta-sigma (c). These block diagrams represent extremely simplified concepts ...
EDN

Let’s Compare SAR & Δ-Σ Converters for a Mux’d DAS, Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we started looking at the differences between the successive approximation register (SAR) ADC and the delta-sigma (Δ-Σ) ADC. We looked at how they work and some advantages ...
Semiconductor Engineering

SAR ADCs For Machine-To-Machine Connections

In our previous blog about the importance of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), we focused on the various architectures that are in common usage for the Industrial Internet of Things. In particular, ...
Design-Reuse

Verification care abouts for SoC internal channel characterization using an ADC

A generic Nyquist Data Converter-based Analog to Digital Converter (ADC), based on a Successive Approximation Register (SAR) or Redundant Signed Digit (RSD) Algorithm, is shown in the block diagram in ...
Design-Reuse

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Digital adc IP Listing

Innosilicon SAR-ADC IP is a small-size, low power analog to digital converter. The converter is a charge-redistribution successive approximation ADC. It contains 2 input channels and outputs ... The ...