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 ...
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 ...
Electronics Weekly

LTC ADC samples up to Nyquist frequency

Linear Tech has introduced the LTC2320-16, a 16-bit 1.5Msps per channel, no latency successive approximation register (SAR) ADC with eight simultaneously sampling channels supporting a rail-to-rail ...
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 ...
Electronics Weekly

ISSCC: Incremental zoom ADCs, and others

Incremental zoom ADCs can be made in CMOS and are showing up in IoT sensing applications where high-resolution and accuracy has to be combined with low-power operation from low-voltage rails. In a ...
EDN

“Golden Gloves” A/D Converter Match, Round 2: Successive-approximation register vs. sigma-delta topology–Power Efficiency

After the seven-round fight back in April 2010 between the successive-approximation register (SAR) analog/digital converter (ADC) and the sigma-delta (S?) ADC, Figure 1, (click here to see the full ...
Design-Reuse

This analog-to-digital converter (ADC) uses successive approximation register (SAR) architecture to achieve 12-bit resolution.

This analog-to-digital converter (ADC) uses successive approximation register (SAR) architecture to achieve 12-bit resolution. The ADC includes intern ...
Electronic Design

Octal, Simultaneous Sampling ADC Achieves True 18-Bit Performance

Linear Technology Corp. recently introduced the LTC2348-18, an 18-bit, 8-channel simultaneous sampling successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to digital converter (ADC). While converting eight ...
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, ...