Advanced Data Converters

This book evaluates the key new data converter architectures, covering basic principles, circuit and system design techniques and practical design trade-offs.

Gabriele Manganaro (Author)

9781107005570, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 November 2011

250 pages, 175 b/w illus. 5 tables
24.9 x 17.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.66 kg

'Data converters are used more and more by electronic systems. The requests of designers and users to better [understand] architectures and to know practical aspects is appropriately satisfied by [this book]. It is surely a precious working aid for professionals but also is a valid help for graduate students [who] can find in the book the necessary background notions and valuable information on architectures, practical limits and design tricks. The comprehensive list of references is a unique source of additional information. It complements and makes … the book [more valuable].' Franco Maloberti, University of Pavia, Italy

Need to get up to speed quickly on the latest advances in high performance data converters? Want help choosing the best architecture for your application? With everything you need to know about the key new converter architectures, this guide is for you. It presents basic principles, circuit and system design techniques and associated trade-offs, doing away with lengthy mathematical proofs and providing intuitive descriptions upfront. Everything from time-to-digital converters to comparator-based/zero-crossing ADCs is covered and each topic is introduced with a short summary of the essential basics. Practical examples describing actual chips, along with extensive comparison between architectural or circuit options, ease architecture selection and help you cut design time and engineering risk. Trade-offs, advantages and disadvantages of each option are put into perspective with a discussion of future trends, showing where this field is heading, what is driving it and what the most important unanswered questions are.

1. The need for data converters
2. A refresher of the basics
3. Advanced analog-to-digital converters
4. Advanced digital-to-analog converters
5. Trends in data conversion
6. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Circuits & components [TJFC]