Electronic Design

Digging Deeper: The ABCs Of AFE ADCs

The three most popular ADC types generally found in analog front ends are successive-approximation (a), pipelined (b), and delta-sigma (c). These block diagrams represent extremely simplified concepts ...
EDN

Let’s Compare SAR & Δ-Σ Converters for a Mux’d DAS, Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we started looking at the differences between the successive approximation register (SAR) ADC and the delta-sigma (Δ-Σ) ADC. We looked at how they work and some advantages ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

SAR ADCs For Machine-To-Machine Connections

In our previous blog about the importance of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), we focused on the various architectures that are in common usage for the Industrial Internet of Things. In particular, ...