Analog to Digital Converters Performance Evaluation Using Figure of Merits in Industrial Applications

Abstract

Analog to Digital Converter(ADC) helps us to connect between analog to digital world. ADCs have function from a tiny electronic device to medical imaging and satellites. Resolution, sampling rate, effective number of bits, power dissipation are some of the commonly accepted parameters to evaluate key performance characteristics of ADCs. This paper presents a detailed performance evaluation survey of commercially available most popular types of ADCs. Commercially available 1828 data for most popular types of ADCs are taken from three major integrated circuit company as Texas Instrument, Analog Devices and Maxim. These data is reviewed and classified into categories. The main contribution of this paper is that the data of current commercially available analog to digital converters are analyzed and a table is given to explain main specifications and limits of current industrial applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a broad perspective on the status of some characteristics of different types of commercially available ADC performance comparison for researchers and application engineers who are dealing with resolution and speed of the data converters.