Electronic Design

Offset Compensation Technique Improves Bridge-Configured Sensor Performance

This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 7. Strain gages and pressure sensors usually are connected in a bridge configuration. These sensors have a typical full-scale ...
Electronic Design

An Inside Look at High-Speed ADC Accuracy

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Rob Reeder, Senior System Application Engineer, Analog Devices Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used in a wide ...
EDN

Three ways of looking at a sigma-delta ADC device

The growing availability of digital ICs like microcontrollers, microprocessors, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) allows developers to use complex digital processing techniques rather than ...
Design-Reuse

Interleaved ADC Calibration Techniques

Commercial time-interleaved ADCs have been available since the early 2000’s. Since then the number of academic and industry-sponsored articles showing the advantages of interleaving has been steadily ...
Embedded

Understanding analog to digital converter specifications

Confused by analog-to-digital converter specifications? Here's a primer to help you decipher them and make the right decisions for your project. Although manufacturers use common terms to describe ...
EDN

Increasing ADC resolution by adding dither to DC signals

An EDN Design Idea (DI) presented a discussion of how to increase the resolution of an ADC by adding a non-deterministic, zero-mean, Gaussian noise dither waveform to a signal to be converted; then, ...