EDN

ADC/DAC IPs and the changing face of RF designs

Analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) converter IPs are becoming a staple in RF system-on-chips (SoCs), and it’s reshaping the wireless design landscape. These silicon-proven IP cores ...
Electronic Design

Evaluating ADC and DAC Performance Characteristics

Functionality of ADC/DACs, their performance characteristics, and how they have been improved. Advantages, disadvantages, and applications of various ADC/DAC architectures. How ADC/DACs are used in ...
EDN

Why DAC and ADC responses droop

Have you ever experienced unexpected droop when you’ve plotted out the frequency response of a signal processing system when you expected that the frequency response would be flat (or at least, ...
Design-Reuse

Alvand Technologies' Ultra-Low Power ADC/DAC IP Has Been Selected By Faraday Technology for High-Performance, and Next-Generation Mixed-Signal ASICs

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- March 05, 2009-- Faraday Technology Corporation [TAIEX:3035], a leading ASIC and silicon IP provider, and Alvand Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance, ...
The Engineer

CTSD Precision ADCs - Part 2: CTSD Architecture Explained for Signal Chain Designers

This article will explain continuous-time sigma-delta (CTSD) ADC technology in a less traditional approach, enabling signal chain designers toenvision a new class of easy to use precision ADC ...
Electronics Weekly

7GHz ADC-DAC card honed for FPGA software-defined radio

Abaco Systems latest analogue front-end mezzanine card for FPGAs has been tailored for software defined radio, as well as electronic warfare, radar, test and measurement. FMC300, as it will be known, ...
Design-Reuse

Specifying a PLL Part 1: Calculating PLL Clock Spur Requirements from ADC or DAC SFDR

It is common for an ADC or DAC to be required to meet a SFDR (spurious free dynamic range) specification. Definition: “Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is the strength ratio of the fundamental ...
Electronic Design

How to Best Calculate the DAC Signal-Chain Error Budget

Electrical signal chains can be found in various forms. They may consist of different electrical components, including sensors, actuators, amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), ...
Electronics Weekly

ADC-FPGA-DAC board processes 12bits at 5.4Gsample/s

Teledyne e2v and Logic-X have developed an FPGA mezzanine card incorporating GHz ADCs and DACs from Telydyne. The 12bit EV12DS460A DAC provides an analogue bandwidth extending beyond 7GHz ...
Business Wire

Triad Semiconductor Announces First Mixed-signal ARM® Cortex™-M0 Processor with 16-bit ADC and 12-bit DAC

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Triad Semiconductor, Inc., the industry’s leading supplier of via-configurable mixed-signal ASICs, today announced another first: the first ARM® Cortex™-M0 ...
ecoustics

NuForce DAC-9 Digital-to-Analog Converter

NuForce introduced the DAC-9 Digital-to-Analog Converter, Preamplifier and Headphone Amplifier offering six digital inputs to cover the full range of current digital formats. Each input feeds a pair ...