EDN

Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) accuracy in simple terms

The previous blog discussed how makers can select an A/D converter by understanding the application and how manufacturers optimize a part for that role. Now, what happens when an A/D fires up—how ...
EDN

Increasing ADC resolution by adding dither to DC signals

An EDN Design Idea (DI) presented a discussion of how to increase the resolution of an ADC by adding a non-deterministic, zero-mean, Gaussian noise dither waveform to a signal to be converted; then, ...
Electronic Design

Using Delta-Sigma Can Be As Easy As ADC (Part 4)

Based on the amount of e-mail I received after Part 3 of this series (Nov. 7, 2008, p. 18; www.electronicdesign.com, ED Online 19948), many of you have already guessed that an incremental integrator ...
Electronic Design

Understanding Continuous-Time, Discrete-Time Sigma-Delta ADCs And Nyquist ADCs

Sigma-delta converters are in wide use among applications that demand high precision and accuracy. A variant of the sigma-delta architecture, called the continuous-time sigma delta (CT-S?), has found ...