Electronic Design

CMOS ADC Delivers Up To 62 Msamples/s

Touted as being the industry’s fastest such device, the ADS5422 14-bit, CMOS A/D converter samples at rates up to 62 Msamples/s. The device has a SNR of 72 dB and a spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) ...
Electronic Design

CMOS ADCs Surge Past 1 GHz As VCOs Race Toward 50 GHz

Scaling analog circuits and data converters in CMOS has always been a daunting task for designers. But those hurdles get taller as developers begin migrating toward design rules of 0.25 µm and below ...
EDN

Extreme Design: Realizing a single-chip CMOS 56 Gs/s ADC for 100 Gbps Ethernet

To provide a long-haul, 100-Gbps, optical transport network with maximum reach and immunity to optical fiber non-idealities, the industry has settled on dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying ...
EDN

56 Gsps ADC Enables 100 GbE Transport

The new Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) techniques makes the design of single chip 100 Gbps coherent receivers attainable for the first time. It uses the 65 nm CMOS technology that meets the ...
Nature

Low-Voltage CMOS Analog Circuit Design

Low-voltage CMOS analog circuit design has emerged as a critical area of research, driven by the dual imperatives of energy efficiency and high-performance signal processing. This discipline focuses ...
TechRepublic

VLSI Design of 12-Bit ADC with 1GSPS in 180nm CMOS Integrating with SAR and Two-Step Flash ADC

In this paper, a novel hybrid ADC consisting of two-step quantizer which has flash ADC and SAR ADC along with resistor string DAC is designed and implemented. This hybrid ADC improves the speed by ...
Design-Reuse

System on Chip (SoC) for Short Range Wireless - CMOS versus SIGe

The issue of integration is driven by both advances in technology and changes to the market space. In many cases the business changes help drive uses of the technical improvements, so we begin by ...