Attack The Noise Gremlins That Plague High-Speed ADCs

摘要

The analog nature of our physical world and the growing need to process continuous functions in the digital domain place ever-stringent performance demands on today's analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). A converter's raw processing speed per se, however, isn't usually the weak link in the system—though many designers find it difficult to get expected performance from a given device. Rather, it's the presence of noise.