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		<title>An ADC and DAC Least Significant Bit (LSB)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian S. Nastase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analog Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed-Signal Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analog to digital converters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Articles on Internet and different books show how to calculate the Least Significant Bit (LSB), but they take into consideration either the voltage reference (Vref) or the full scale (FS) of the ADC or DAC.  Many times this leads to confusion, as a few messages I received from my readers show.  Therefore, this article shows both ways of defining the LSB, so that people will have a clear understanding how to treat an ADC’s (Analog-to-Digital-Converter) or DAC’s (Digital-to-Analog-Converter) LSB.


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		<title>Design a Unipolar to Bipolar Converter for a Unipolar Voltage Output DAC</title>
		<link>http://MasteringElectronicsDesign.com/design-a-unipolar-to-bipolar-converter-for-a-unipolar-voltage-output-dac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian S. Nastase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Differential Amplifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Circuits Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed-Signal Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amplifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital to analog converters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[op amp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unipolar to bipolar converters are useful when we have to have a unipolar component to do a certain job in a mixed signal design environment.  For example, Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) may have the output voltage range 0 to 2.5 V, or 0 to 5 V, while the design asks for a range of –5 V to +5 V.  To comply with this requirement, we have to design a unipolar to bipolar converter which will be inserted between the DAC output and the following bipolar stage.


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		<title>An ADC and DAC Differential Non-Linearity (DNL)</title>
		<link>http://MasteringElectronicsDesign.com/an-adc-and-dac-differential-non-linearity-dnl/</link>
		<comments>http://MasteringElectronicsDesign.com/an-adc-and-dac-differential-non-linearity-dnl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian S. Nastase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analog Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed-Signal Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analog to digital converters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital to analog converters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linearity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As in the case of INL, DNL is an important parameter of an ADC or DAC because it is a measure of their non-linearity.  DNL stands for Differential Non-Linearity and quantifies the ADC or DAC precision.


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		<title>An ADC and DAC Integral Non-Linearity (INL)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian S. Nastase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mixed-Signal Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analog to digital converters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital to analog converters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is INL?  This term describes the non-linearity of Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) and Digital to Analog Converters (DAC).  INL stands for Integral Non-Linearity.  Is this term important? Should we be concerned about this specification?  The answer is yes.


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