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Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) provide the link between continuous-time signals and their discrete-time counterparts, and the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem provides the mathematical foundation. Real-world signals have a variable…

Improving the power efficiency and spectral efficiency of communication systems has been one of the major research goals over the recent years. However, there is a tradeoff in achieving both goals at the same time. In this work, we consider…

ADCs sit at the interface of the analog and digital worlds and fundamentally determine what information is available in the digital domain for processing. This paper shows that a configurable ADC can be designed for signals with non…

We demonstrate a 10-GHz bandwidth digitizer with 7-effective bits of resolution and 52dB SFDR, using photonic time stretch technique. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the same…

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The ubiquitous use of sensing and signal processing is increasing exponentially with the advance of the Internet of Everything (IoE). In this context, the design of every time more power efficient sensor nodes is a must. Within these nodes,…

Conventional digitization based on the Shannon-Nyquist method, implemented via analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), faces fundamental limitations. High-dynamic-range (HDR) signals often get clipped or saturated in practice. Given a fixed…

RF system-on-chip (RFSoC) devices provide the potential for implementing a complete radio astronomy receiver on a single board, but performance of the integrated analogue-to-digital converters is critical. We have evaluated the performance…

When a quantizer input signal is the sum of the desired signal and input white noise, the quantization error is a function of total input signal. Our new equivalent model splits the quantization error into two components: a non-linear…

This letter investigates the uplink of a multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) system, where the base station (BS) is equipped with a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array and resolution-adaptive analog-to-digital converters…

Many components used in signal processing and communication applications, such as power amplifiers and analog-to-digital converters, are nonlinear and have a finite dynamic range. The nonlinearity associated with these devices distorts the…

We investigate full-duplex (FD) multi-user multiple input single-output systems with coarse quantization, aiming to characterize the impact of employing low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) on self-interference (SI) and to…

- This paper describes a pipeline analog-to-digital converter is implemented for high speed camera. In the pipeline ADC design, prime factor is designing operational amplifier with high gain so ADC have been high speed. The other advantage…

The power consumption of high-speed, high-resolution analog to digital converters (ADCs) is a limiting factor in implementing large-bandwidth mm-wave communication systems. A mitigating solution, which has drawn considerable recent…

A 33.6 ps LSB Time-to-Digital converter was designed in 130 nm BiCMOS technology. The core of the converter is a differential 9-stage ring oscillator, based on a multi-path architecture. A novel version of this design is proposed, along…

High sampling speed can be achieved using multiple Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) based on the Time-Interleaving A/D Conversion (TIADC) technique. Various types of methods were proposed to correct the mismatch errors among parallel ADC…

This letter revisits the channel estimation problem for MIMO systems with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) through a novel algorithm--Amplitude Retrieval (AR). Unlike the state-of-the-art methods such as those based on one-bit…

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