Integrated/Special Purpose A/D Converters

Integrated/Special Purpose A/D Converters

To meet the varied demands of the worldwide market, Analog Devices provides an extensive portfolio of integrated and special purpose converters to support a broad range of industries. These special purpose converters provide a specific solution to applications for communications, energy, healthcare, instrumentation and measurement, motor and power control, industrial automation, and aerospace and defense.

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A/D and D/A Converter Combinations

Analog Devices’ A/D and D/A converters combine with other technologies in a wide range of configurations to create a comprehensive portfolio of software configurable inputs/outputs (SWIO), integrated monitoring, and control components. In combining these A/D and D/A converters with temperature sensors, GPIOs, and current sensing technologies, ADI’s integrated solutions save space over discrete implementations, simplify operations, and provide the configurability, reliability, and predictability that your system requires. A/D and D/A converter combination products are ideal for configurable input/output stages or for general system monitoring of peripherals like power supplies or system voltages and currents. This results in these A/D and D/A converter solutions being used in wireless base stations, optical transceivers, transponders, and in industrial I/O module applications, as well as systems such as programmable logic controllers, control systems, and building control due to their versatility and flexibility, as well as their software configurable I/Os.

Audio A/D Converters

Analog Devices offers audio analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for applications such as automotive, home theater, consumer audio, and PCs. These ADCs offer cost effective solutions and easy interfacing to ADI's SHARC® processor, Blackfin® processor, and SigmaDSP™ products.

Audio CODECs

Analog Devices audio codecs feature extended temperature range, low noise and distortion, and easy multichannel interfacing to common DSPs, such as SHARC^® and SigmaDSP^®, and bring high fidelity to any audio signal chain. When combined with our DSP products and our SigmaStudio^® software, audio engineers can craft world-class audio experiences with a minimum of programming skills. ADI has audio codecs for many different applications, such as automotive, home theater, consumer audio, and PCs, and they are also widely used in systems such as automotive infotainment and road noise cancellation. Many soundbars use our audio codecs to enhance the sound to give you the best home theater experience.

Capacitive-to-Digital and Touch Screen Controllers

Analog Devices’ portfolio of capacitance-to-digital converters (CDCs) and touch screen controllers provide solutions for your automotive, industrial, medical, and other system needs, with applications including humidity, position, and proximity sensing. Our CDC products provide a new standard in single-chip solutions, with members of this portfolio providing high resolution, high linearity, and high accuracy, as well as fast response times and high input sensitivity. Our touch screen controllers feature a synchronous serial interface ,low on-resistance switches for driving touch screens, and throughput rates greater than 125 kSPS.

Current to Digital

Analog Devices’ breakthrough current-to-digital converter technology is backed by award winning expertise to help solve your medical, industrial, and security application needs. Our high speed, high resolution ADC modules enable improved CT scanner data acquisition, photodiode sensors and power monitoring, spectroscopy, and high channel count data acquisition systems.

Digital Temperature Sensors

Analog Devices offers a broad selection of digital temperature sensors with I2C, SPI, and mark space interfaces. For more intricate system design applications, some of these sensors have integrated D/A converters, A/D converters, references, and limit alarm register. All of these sensors possess a broad range of uses, including scientific, medical, and aerospace applications, in test and measurement equipment, and in industrial automation.

Display-Oriented ADCs

Analog Devices’ family of display oriented ADCs combine high performance data converters with integrated LCD drivers, voltage references, oscillators, and bias generating charge pumps to create small, simple solutions for 7-segment displays from 3.5 digits to 4.5 digits.

Energy Metering ICs

Analog Devices’ energy measurement solutions address the challenges of next-generation smart meter architectures. The ADE family of energy metering ICs is ideal for measuring active energy (kWh), apparent energy (kVA), reactive energy (kVAR), rms, and power quality with the highest accuracy in single phase and polyphase revenue meters, industrial instruments, and energy monitoring applications. ADI’s energy measurement ICs combine analog-to-digital converters with fixed-function digital signal processors to perform critical measurements, while providing unparalleled functionality and ease of use.

High Speed Communications AFEs

Analog Devices’ high speed analog front-end (HS AFE) ICs combine high speed and low speed data converters in a single device to help meet size, cost, and power targets for mobile products. Our high speed AFEs are optimized for high dynamic performance and ultra low power, and are ideal for wideband communication applications operating in full-duplex (FD) or half-duplex (HD) mode. Our high speed AFEs will help you achieve fast time to market with low initial investment and proven capability.

IF/RF Receivers

IF/RF receivers are designed for communications infrastructure applications. Wide bandwidth and high sample rates allow implementing a software configurable design for digitizing close to the antenna. Various receiver architectures, such as zero-IF, IF sampling and direct RF sampling, are supported. IF/RF Receivers take advantage of smart partitioning by integrating configurable digital filtering allowing to offset resource demands in the FPGA or digital ASIC and easing of analog filtering.

Isolated A/D Converters

As the world’s leading supplier of data converters, Analog Devices is constantly introducing new A/D converters (ADCs) that drive system architectures. In the motor control arena, ADI’s converters solve the challenges associated with current and voltage monitoring, optical encoder feedback, and resolver-to-digital conversion. The introduction of the isolated ADC with its 3.75 kV standoff voltage is one example of ADI’s breakthroughs in performance and integration to ease the burden of design.

Mixed-Signal Front Ends (MxFE)

Scalable Software-Defined Radio Solution with 18 GHz Bandwidth

The MxFE^® products from Analog Devices offer a smart integration of RF analog-to-digital converters (ADC), RF digital-to-analog converters (DAC), on-chip digital signal processing, and clock/PLL for multichip synchronization. This allows for the elimination of discrete data converters and traditional RF front-end components to reduce size, weight, power, and cost. Integrated digital signal processing supports the transition to software-defined radio platforms, creating a highly configurable, common hardware/software platform that can be used in multiple applications across a broad array of end markets.

Precision Signal Chain µModule Solutions

Analog Devices’ precision signal chain μModule^® solutions utilize heterogeneous integration to provide a complete solution to precision data conversion. These solutions reduce design iterations by transferring the component selection, optimization, and layout from the designer to the device. They also significantly reduce the footprint, total cost of ownership, and time to market for system-level designers.

Resistive Touch Controllers

Analog Devices offers a range of controller ICs for use with 4-wire resistive touch screens. These controllers can be used in human machine interface applications in consumer, automotive, and other products. Analog Devices’ controllers have 12 bits of resolution, SPI/I2C interface options, and low power consumption, making them ideal for use in handheld devices.

Signal Chain µModule Receivers

Analog Devices µModule^® (micromodule) receivers consist of high performance, high speed ADCs with fixed-gain, high speed amplifiers and antialias filters. Our integrated ADC and driver products include integrated bypass capacitance and simplify the high frequency layout required to preserve ac performance. The board space savings are significant for instrumentation applications such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes ,and communications test equipment, or for communications applications such as high sensitivity receivers, software-defined radio (SDR), or signal intelligence receivers. Our portfolio uses system-in-package (SiP) technology similar to multichip modules (MCM) to integrate components with different technologies, along with passive components to make an integrated subsystem.

Synchro/Resolver to Digital Converters

Resolvers and synchros are transducers that convert the angular position and/or velocity of a rotating shaft to an electrical signal. Both deliver signals proportional to the sine and/or cosine of the shaft angle. A resolver-to-digital or synchro-to-digital converter converts these signals to a digital output corresponding to the shaft angle and/or velocity. ADI’s family of RDCs and SDCs offer solutions for these applications.

Ultrasound AFEs

Ultrasound analog front-end (AFE) ICs from Analog Devices provide breakthrough levels of performance for high channel count, cart-based, and portable ultrasound imaging systems. Our completely integrated ultrasound transceivers, receivers, and transmitters save power, increase reliability, speed up design time, and reduce board space by replacing thousands of discrete components normally required for ultrasound AFE designs.

Video CODECs

For designers requiring complementary high precision, high speed video digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters, Analog Devices offers a single generation of video codecs. Designed to provide analog video input/output capability for proprietary video systems, ASICs, or FPGAs, the ADV7202 supplies raw video conversion and basic analog signal processing and conditioning to allow highly efficient, well partitioned systems architecture.

Voltage to Frequency Converters

Analog Devices has the widest range of voltage-to-frequency converters (VFCs) for the instrumentation, industrial, and automation markets. They are ideally suited for use in analog-to-digital conversion, long-term integration, linear frequency modulation and demodulation, and frequency-to-voltage conversion. ADI’s latest family of VFCs, the AD774x series, is based on Σ-Δ technology and provides high linearity in tiny packages at low cost.

Analog Design Tool: Virtual Eval - BETA

Virtual Eval is a web application to assist designers in product evaluation of ADCs and DACs. Using detailed models on Analog’s servers, Virtual Eval simulates crucial part performance characteristics within seconds. Configure operating conditions such as input tones and external jitter, as well as device features like gain or digital down-conversion. Performance characteristics include noise, distortion, and resolution, FFTs, timing diagrams, frequency response plots, and more.

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