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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

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 ...
EDN

Analog-to-Digital Converters

The usual method of bringing analog inputs into a microprocessor is to use an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Here are some tips for selecting such a part and calibrating it to fit your needs. In ...
Design-Reuse

GF 65nm LPe, 8-ch, 12-bit 1MSPS Low-power SAR ADC

The L6GAD12B001M IP is a successive– approximation-register (SAR) type analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which consists of an 8-channel input MUX, ...
Design-Reuse

GF 55nm LPe, 8-ch, 12-bit 1MSPS Low-power SAR ADC

The L7GAD12B001M IP is a successive– approximation-register (SAR) type analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which consists of an 8-channel input MUX, a ...
Nature

Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters

Successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters form a critical link between the analogue and digital realms in modern electronics. Operating through a binary search algorithm, ...
EDN

Prepare signals for microcontroller ADCs

Many microcontrollers have built-in ADCs (analog-to-digital converters), which means you can use a single device to both digitize analog signals and manipulate the results. Once the ADC digitizes a ...