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ADC Digital Downconverter: Decimation Filters and ADC Aliasing, Part 1

Over the last few blogs we’ve been looking at DDCs and how frequencies are shifted and folded in the output spectrum. In the last blog, ADC Digital Downconverter: A Complex Decimation Example we ...
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Relate ADC Topologies And Performance To Applications

Basic review of how the different kinds of analog-to-ditital converters wor, with a sidebar relating them to appropriate applications. ADCs quantize time-varying analog voltages into a sequence of ...
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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 ...
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ADC Digital Downconverter: Decimation Filters and ADC Aliasing, Part 2

In part one of this blog series, ADC Digital Downconverter: Decimation Filters and ADC Aliasing, Part 1 we began looking at the decimation filtering in the DDC when the complex to real conversion is ...