As part of the Alabama Broadcasters Association’s Engineering Academy Continuing Education Series I have begun laying out a series of fundamental tutorials. Here I write on Understanding Digital Audio ...

For gigasample-per-second (GSPS) ADCs, one of the most important ac performance specifications is SFDR. It simply defines the capability of the ADC, and the system, to decipher a carrier signal from ...

Claiming new benchmarks in performance, the 16-bit AD9446 a/d converter specifies a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 80 dBfs and a spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of 90 dBc. The device samples at 100 ...