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 ...
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 ...
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

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 ...
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 ...
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

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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Design-Reuse

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 ...