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 ...
Nature

Noise-Shaping Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters

The noise‐shaping successive approximation register (NS‐SAR) analogue‐to‐digital converter represents an attractive hybrid architecture that merges the inherent energy efficiency and simplicity of ...
Nature

Energy-Efficient Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters

Energy-efficient successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) represent a rapidly evolving field in microelectronics, where substantial progress has been made in ...
EDN

Designing SAR ADC Anti-Aliasing Filters

Our guest author is Matthew Hann, SAR ADC Product Line Manager, Texas Instruments. One of the most challenging aspects in optimizing the performance of a successive-approximation-register ...
Electronic Design

SAR ADC Family Extends Analog-Supply, Common-Mode Voltage Ranges

A dozen new successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) from Texas Instruments deliver a wider array of input commode-mode and analog-supply voltages. A dozen new ...
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 ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

IMEC Sets New Record for 9bit, 50MSamples/s SAR ADC with a Figure of Merit of 65fJ

Leuven, Belgium -- September 19, 2007-- A new ultra-low power (0.7 mW), high-speed (50MSamples/s) analog to digital converter, presented by IMEC earlier this year at the ISSCC conference, achieves a ...
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 ...
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 ...