Electronic Design

Squeeze 10-Bit Performance From An 8-Bit ADC, Part 1: Additive Dithering

What’s the cost of an underused hardware resource? If you spec your microcontroller to have a 10-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) but only require 8 bits, you’ve paid for extra performance that ...
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Dual 8 Bit Sampling ADC

The AD9284 is a dual 8-bit monolithic sampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that supports simultaneous operation and is optimized for low cost, low power, and ease of use. Each ADC operates at up ...
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How do ADCs work?

If you asked me to nominate one electronic component as the workhorse inside test-and-measurement equipment, I’d nominate the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). ADCs convert voltages that represent ...
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Squeeze 10-Bit Performance From An 8-Bit ADC, Part 2: Triangular Dithering

Part 1 of this column (ED Online 18899) showed how designers can use additive dither and oversampling to increase the resolution of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In this edition, we will ...