This comprehensive new handbook is a one-stop engineering reference covering data converter fundamentals, techniques, and applications. Beginning with the basic theoretical elements necessary for a complete understanding of data converters, the book covers all the latest advances made in this changing field. Details are provided on the design of high-speed ADCs, high accuracy DACs and ADCs, sample-and-hold amplifiers, voltage sources and current reference, noise-shaping coding, sigma-delta converters, and much more. The book's 900-plus pages are packed with design information and application circuits, including guidelines on selecting the most suitable converters for particular applications.

You'll find the very latest information on:

• Data converter fundamentals, such as key specifications, noise, sampling, and testing +Architectures and processes, including SAR, flash, pipelined, folding, £-A, and more
• Practical hardware design techniques for mixed-signal systems, such as driving ADCs, buffering DAC outputs, sampling clocks, layout, interfacing, support circuits, and tools
• Data converter applications dealing with precision measurement, data acquisition, audio, display, DOS, software radio and many more

Whether you're a hardware design and development engineer, a board designer, or an applications/system engineer, this is one reference you can't be without.

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Data Converter History
• Fundamentals of Sampled Data Systems
• Data Converter Architectures
• Data Converter Process Technology
• Testing Data Converters
• Interfacing to Data Converters
• Data Converter Support Circuits
• Data Converter Applications
• Hardware Design Techniques
• Index