EDN

Not your grandfather’s ADC: RF sampling ADCs offer advantages in systems design

The data converter has acted as the bridge between the analog (real) world and the digital world for a few decades now. Starting with discrete elements that took up multiple rack spaces and burnt lots ...
EDN

ADC family yields direct-RF sampling of 2.7 GHz signals, with 3.6 Gsps rate

When you are trying to digitize a modulated RF signal, you have several choices: you can heterodyne the signal down to a lower intermediate frequency (IF) one or even twice, then digitize; you can ...
Electronic Design

Fast ADC Facilitates Direct RF Sampling at Higher Frequencies

The critical component in all digital communications receivers is the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC sampling rate, bandwidth, and noise tolerance establishes the specifications and ...
Electronic Design

High-Speed RF Sampling ADC Boosts Bandwidth, Dynamic Range

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Modern telecommunications applications like 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems as well as forthcoming 5G systems use ...
New Electronics

RF-Sampling and GSPS ADCs - Breakthrough ADCs Revolutionize Radio Architectures

Texas Instruments has revolutionized radio architectures and expanded its gigasample-per-second (GSPS) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) portfolio with the direct RF-sampling ADC12Dxx00RF family.
Electronics Weekly

Socionext launches 7nm ADC and DAC for 5G direct RF transmitters and receivers

Socionext has launched a new high-speed Direct RF data converter PHY IP. This is the latest in a series of IP offerings driving advanced transceiver systems for 3GPP 5GNR/LTE and Wi-Fi network ...
Design-Reuse

12-bit, 6 GSPS High Performance RF ADC in 16nm CMOS

The ODT-ADS-12B6G-16FFCT is a ultra-high performance RF sampling 12-bit 6 GSPS ADC in a standard 16nm CMOS process, implemented using Omni Design's gr ...
Electronics Weekly

Imec develops 3.2GSps RF-sampling ADC

Imec has developed a compact, highly linear 3.2 giga-sample-per-second (GSps) RF-sampling ADC that uses ring amplification (ringamp). The ADC has a record low power consumption of 61.3mW and supports ...
Finanznachrichten

JARIET Technologies Creates Expanded ELECTRA Direct RF-sampling ADC/DAC Transceiver Family Based Upon Their Industry-leading ELECTRA-MA 64-GSPS Product to Better Serve VHF to ...

JARIET Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high performance data converter transceivers, announced an expansion of its flagship ELECTRA-MA product with a much broader ELECTRA ...
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Industry's first integrated quad- and dual-channel RF-sampling transceivers enable multiantenna wideband systems

Highest instantaneous bandwidth (IBW): Offering the highest IBW among radio frequency (RF)-sampling transceivers, the AFE7444 and AFE7422 enable engineers to achieve up to 600 percent more data ...
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Specifying a PLL Part 1: Calculating PLL Clock Spur Requirements from ADC or DAC SFDR

It is common for an ADC or DAC to be required to meet a SFDR (spurious free dynamic range) specification. Definition: “Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is the strength ratio of the fundamental ...