Electronic Design

Fast ADC Facilitates Direct RF Sampling at Higher Frequencies

The critical component in all digital communications receivers is the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC sampling rate, bandwidth, and noise tolerance establishes the specifications and ...
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Audio ADC buffer design secrets: Interfacing to audio ADC sampling circuits

There are several aspects of audio converter design that are generally not well understood but have a dramatic impact on performance, both measurable and audible. Audio converter IC manufacturers ...
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WiMax Double Downconversion IF Sampling Receiver Design

This application note describes an intermediate frequency (IF) sampling receiver intended for use in the wireless communication services (WCS) band from 2.3 GHz to 2.36 GHz and the unlicensed ISM band ...
Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 3)

A special technique produces very wide loop BWs in high-frequency PLLs (and hence, indirect (PLL) synthesizers), thereby achieving very low phase noise rivaling that of direct (MMD) synthesizers. A ...