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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8-BIT MCU family packs 16-Bit, 1Msps ADC on-chip

— C8051F064 Offers 16-Bit, 1Msps ADC for the Price of a Standalone ADC AUSTIN, Texas — Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced the new C8051F064 product family of precision mixed-signal ...
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ADC Basics, Part 9: PGA Embedded in an 8-Channel, 12-Bit SAR

We are looking for 12-bit systems that are appropriate for handheld meters, data loggers, automotive systems, or monitoring systems. These systems must produce 4,096 possible digital outputs to a ...
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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 ...