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

ADC SNR effects due to parasitics, mismatch, and noise

Successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are commonly used in applications which require medium to high resolution. The major benefits of SAR ADCs are high ...
Business Wire

Analog Devices’ New Easy Drive™ SAR ADCs Simplify Design While Delivering Industry Leading Performance

WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) today introduced a new portfolio of next-generation 16-to-24-bit, ultra-high precision successive approximation register (SAR) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

SAR ADC Simplifies Motor Control

Featuring two successive-approximation (SAR) a/d converters, programmable gain amplifier (PGA), and four comparators, the AD7264 interfaces with multiple sensors to replace as many as three ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Ultra-Low-Power SAR ADC in 22 nm FD-SOI Technology Using Body-Biasing

Today’s sensor applications show a rising demand on miniaturized autonomous sensors nodes with extreme requirements on power dissipation. One core functionality of these sensor nodes is the conversion ...
The Engineer

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