One of 2013's shining stars in the IC world was the LTC2378-20 from Linear Technology. This Product of the Year winner is a real 20-bit A/D converter, with industry-leading 0.5-ppm integral nonlinearity. Yes, that's in ppm, otherwise called 0.00005%. And this comes in a SAR-type A/D with 1-Msample/s speed. The design team in Milpitas, CA tells me that the product has been very popular in all the areas you would expect: precision instrumentation, automatic test equipment, industrial measurement and control, seismic and energy exploration, and medical imaging. I'm told the world-wide response to the device has been overwhelmingly positive.
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