Mixed Signal/Analog

Designed for integration in high performance SoC solutions, Semtech has announced availability of 64GSPS ADC and DAC preliminary cores utilising IBM’s 32nm SOI technology. The devices target the requirements of Advanced Communications Systems including the optical communications, radar and electronic warfare markets.

Featuring flexible differential inputs, the LTC2323-16 is a dual 16-bit simultaneous sampling, successive approximation register (SAR) ADC from Linear Technology. This device leads a family of 16-, 14- and 12-bit SAR ADCs, featuring sample rates of 5Ms/s and 2Ms/s while achieving 81dB SNR at 16-bits, 80dB SNR at 14-bits and 73dB SNR at 12-bits.

Texas Instruments introduce what they claim is the industry’s fastest 12-bit ADC. Clocking in at 4GS/s (gigasamples per second), the RF-sampling ADC12J4000 supports the JEDEC JESD204B serial interface standard for data converters up to 8Gb/s. It is suitable for use in test and measurement, wireless and defence applications, such as spectrum analysers, munitions, digital pre-distortion feedback and radar.

Claiming industry-leading accuracy, the MCP3913 and MCP3914 are Microchip's next-generation family of energy-measurement AFEs.

  Reducing the component count in a variety of stereo speaker applications, such as PCs, docking stations and wireless speakers, Diodes Incorporated have released the PAM8407 Class D audio amplifier. This audio component can drive dual 4Ω speakers at 3W per channel from a 5V supply.

At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, imec and Holst Centre, together with Olympus, demonstrated a low-power single channel implantable electrocardiography (ECG) acquisition chip with analog feature extraction, which enables precise monitoring of the signal activity in a selected frequency band

Extending the existing nanoDAC product portfolio, the AD5683R D/A converter from ADI delivers high performance in a smaller package. The 16-bit, single-channel, nanoDAC+ boasts relative accuracy of ±2-LSB INL, a 2-ppm/°C 2.5-V reference and a space saving LFCSP package.

Compatible with existing 3Gbps and 6Gbps SAS link rates used in data centre applications, the DS125BR800A multi-protocol repeater has been introduced by Texas Instruments. The company has claimed that this is the industry’s first signal conditioner capable of driving the serial-attached SCSI (SAS-3) protocol.

Enabling up to 60% power and heat dissipation savings, the 8P34S family of clock fanout buffers have been announced by IDT. Offering high-performance AC characteristics similar to that of 3.3V devices, the 1.8V LVDS clock fanout buffers are suited for use in complex, low-noise, high-speed clock designs found in wireless and wireline communications, advanced computing, and networking applications.

Expanding its Successive Approximation Register (SAR) ADC product portfolio, Texas Instruments has introduced a family of 12 devices which the company claim offer the industry’s widest analogue supply and common-mode voltage ranges. The ADS8881 family is suitable for a variety of high-end industrial, such as high-performance test and measurement equipment, precision metrology and precision sensor transmitters for industrial automation, and ...