WMA: APPLICATION AND TECHNOLOGY OF HIGH-SPEED ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS  

Date & Time: Monday, June 13; 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Long Beach Convention Center, Room 201B  

Topics & Speakers:  

• ADC Requirements for DOD Systems, S. Hary, AFRL

• Continuous-Time Modulators for RF Applications, Joe Jensen, HRL

  High Sampling Rate III-V ADCs, Bill Skones, Northrop Grumman

  Commercializing R&D Data Converters , M. J. Choe, Rockwell Scientific

  Military Applications of High-Speed ADCs, Leo Pellon, Lockheed Martin

  High-Resolution ADC Techniques, Band-Sup Song, UCSD

  Building the World's Fastest 8-bit ADC - In CMOS, Ken Poulton, Agilent

  ADC Requirements for Commercial Systems and High-Speed ADC Products, David Robertson, Analog Devices

  High-Speed SiGe ADCs , Marc Wingender, Atmel

  Serial Interface Options for High Speed Analog-to-Digital Converters, D Barkin, National Semiconductor

• Attacking the Analog Scaling Problem with Novel Silicon Device Technology, Michael Anthony, Kenet

Organizers: K.C. Wang, HRL E. Martinez, Purdue U. L. Kushner, Kenet   Sponsors: MTT-9: Digital Signal Processing  

High-speed analog to digital converters (ADCs) have enabled many new commercial and military digital sensor and communication systems. They play a key role in interfacing the analog nature of sensing with digital information processing. Tremendous efforts have been invested in developing new circuit architectures, sampling techniques, and advance device technologies to enhance the resolution and bandwidth performance of high-speed ADCs.  As a result of these efforts, today's society benefits from networks of broadband communication systems, wireless personal devices with multi-functional capabilities, industrial sensor systems with direct connectivity to computer networks, advanced medical instrumentations, etc.  In the military market, specialized ADCs have enabled digital radar systems, software re-configurable radios and communication systems, precision weapon systems, as well as other data acquisition systems in space-borne, airborne, and ground-based platforms. The requirements for performance, qualification, and lifetime are stringent. High-speed ADCs have been implemented with virtually all available IC technologies, e.g. Si CMOS and BJT, SiGe HBT, and various III-V HBT and HFET.  The ADCs have been developed with many novel architectures and circuit design techniques, such as flash, pipeline, ripple-through, folding, interpolation, delta-sigma, etc., In this workshop, a group of experts will present and discuss the latest status and challenges of applications, requirements, architectures, designs, IC technologies, and testing of high-speed ADCs. There will be a panel discussing session following the presentations. All attendees are invited to participate in the discussion.