Understanding Analog to Digital Conversion

Using Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) is a common practice, but understanding what type of ADC is being used is not common.

Bil Herd scratches the surface of ADCs, delving into Flash, SAR and Dual-Slope conversions. He shows the underlying designs of each, discussing how they work and how they fit into the sample rate/resolution/cost equation.

Read the entire article:
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/05/analog...


Music:
Latin Industries Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

• #science_technology
• #adc
• #sar
• #flash
• #nyquist
• #dual_slop
• #integrator
• #instrumentation
• #analog_conversion
• #analog_to_digital
• #dac
• #r2r