EDN

Measure an ADC’s offset and gain error

Many measurement applications require converting a slowly varying analog signal into digital with high accuracy and linearity. These often occur in industrial control, environmental monitoring, ...
Electronic Design

Should You Use Audio ADCs For Precision Applications?

There’s another dimension to the THD versus linearity problem as well. This plot represents the linearity error for every code for an 18-bit precision ADC. Using ...
EDN

Adding one resistor improves anemometer analog linearity to better than +/-0.5%

Awhile back I published a simple design idea for a thermal airspeed sensor based on a self-heated Darlington transistor pair. See Figure 1. Figure 1 Older design idea with self-heated Darlington ...
Nature

Analog-Digital Converter Design and Optimization

The design and optimisation of analog-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-analog converters (DACs) play a pivotal role in modern electronic systems, bridging the gap between the analog real world ...
Electronic Design

An Inside Look at High-Speed ADC Accuracy

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Rob Reeder, Senior System Application Engineer, Analog Devices Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used in a wide ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Deep Space Design Considerations

The linchpin technology in a deep space telescope is the ability to efficiently convert analog image sensor data into digital data in order to beam home high-resolution images of astronomical objects.