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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Fast 16-bit 5Msps Dual SAR ADC

Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2323-16, a dual 16-bit 5Msps simultaneous sampling, successive approximation register (SAR) ADC with flexible differential inputs. May 29, 2014 2 min ...
Electronic Design

New 4-Channel SAR ADC Ranked As Industry's Fastest

Multi-channel and multiplexed applications requiring an accurate, small size, low-cost successive approximation register (SAR) A/D converter represent the key markets for the AD7655, reportedly the ...
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 ...
New Electronics

Low noise, low power, high speed 24-bit SAR ADC

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC2380-24, a no latency 24-bit 2Msps successive approximation register (SAR) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC). Operating from a 2.5V supply, the device is said ...
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 ...
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 ...
Embedded

ADC controls multiple stepper motors

In this EDN Magazine article, K. Suresh of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research describes a multiple-stepper-motor-control circuit that uses an ADC to control multiple stepper motors. The ...
Design-Reuse

GF 55nm LPe, 8-ch, 10-bit 1MSPS Low-power SAR ADC

The L7GAD10B001M IP is a successive–approximation-register (SAR) type analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which consists of an 8-channel input MUX, a d ...