Dynamic Characterisation of Analogue-to-Digital Converters

Dominique Dallet, José Machado da Silva9780387259024, 0-387-25902-3, 0-387-26121-4, 0387259031, 9780387259031

The Analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) is the most pervasive block in electronic systems. With the advent of powerful digital signal processing and digital communication techniques, ADCs are fast becoming critical components for system’s performance and flexibility. Knowing accurately all the parameters that characterise their dynamic behaviour is crucial, on one hand to select the most adequate ADC architecture and characteristics for each end application, and on the other hand, to understand how they affect performance bottlenecks in the signal processing chain.

Dynamic Characterisation of Analogue-to-Digital Converters presents a state of the art overview of the methods and procedures employed for characterising ADCs’ dynamic performance behaviour using sinusoidal stimuli. The three classical methods – histogram, sine wave fitting, and spectral analysis – are thoroughly described, and new approaches are proposed to circumvent some of their limitations.

This is a must-have compendium, which can be used by both academics and test professionals to understand the fundamental mathematics underlining the algorithms of ADC testing, and as an handbook to help the engineer in the most important and critical details for their implementation.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter……Page 1
Preface……Page 5
List of Abbreviations and Symbols……Page 7
Contents……Page 13
1 Introduction……Page 16
2 Optical Receiver Fundamentals……Page 27
3 Standard CMOS Photodiodes……Page 41
4 Transimpedance Amplifier Design……Page 75
5 Post-Amplifier Design……Page 120
6 CMOS Realizations……Page 145
7 Conclusions……Page 182
References……Page 185
Index……Page 191