Electronics Weekly

ADC-FPGA-DAC board processes 12bits at 5.4Gsample/s

Teledyne e2v and Logic-X have developed an FPGA mezzanine card incorporating GHz ADCs and DACs from Telydyne. The 12bit EV12DS460A DAC provides an analogue bandwidth extending beyond 7GHz ...
Electronic Design

Dual 4 GSPS Transceiver Features On-Board Virtex-7 FPGA

ADC/DAC engine combines 2 channels of 4 GSPS 12-bit ADC, 2 channels of 14-bit DAC data conversion, and programmable Virtex-7 FPGA on 3U OpenVPX card. A new dual channel ADC/DAC engine from ...
Electronics Weekly

7GHz ADC-DAC card honed for FPGA software-defined radio

Abaco Systems latest analogue front-end mezzanine card for FPGAs has been tailored for software defined radio, as well as electronic warfare, radar, test and measurement. FMC300, as it will be known, ...
Electronic Design

Pair The Right JESD204B Converter With Your FPGA

With more analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) now supporting the latest JESD204B serial interface standard, questions are arising about the best way to ...
Design-Reuse

Specifying a PLL Part 1: Calculating PLL Clock Spur Requirements from ADC or DAC SFDR

It is common for an ADC or DAC to be required to meet a SFDR (spurious free dynamic range) specification. Definition: “Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is the strength ratio of the fundamental ...
Design-Reuse

Interleaved ADC Calibration Techniques

Commercial time-interleaved ADCs have been available since the early 2000’s. Since then the number of academic and industry-sponsored articles showing the advantages of interleaving has been steadily ...
EDN

Why DAC and ADC responses droop

Have you ever experienced unexpected droop when you’ve plotted out the frequency response of a signal processing system when you expected that the frequency response would be flat (or at least, ...