OPTIMIZATION OF ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Analog to Digital Conversion

1 ADC TYPES Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) transform an analog voltage to a binary number (a series of 1’s and 0’s), and then eventually to a digital number (base 10) for reading on a meter, monitor, or chart. The number of binary digits (bits) that represents the digital number determines the ADC resolution. However, the digital number is only an approximation of the true value of the ana...

Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion

280 INTRODUCTION Accurate collection and processing of electromagnetic information is critical to a wide variety of applications. Present day RF and microwave sensor systems must cover many frequency bands, detect and identify a large range of signal powers, and analyze the signal information on an ever-decreasing time scale. Simultaneously achieving these attributes typically requires multiple...

Analog to Digital Conversion Methods for Smart Sensing Systems

The new capabilities of smart sensing systems namely, adaptability, reconfiguration, lowenergy consumption and cost, between others, require a wisely selection of the methods that are use to perform analog to digital conversion. It is very important to optimize the trade-offs between, resolution, accuracy, conversion rate, and energy consumption, between others, and above all to adapt dynamical...

Dithering in Analog-to-digital Conversion

Analog to digital conversion in physical measurements

There exist measuring devices where an analog input is converted into a digital output. Such converters can have a nonlinear internal dynamics. We show how measurements with such converting devices can be understood using concepts from symbolic dynamics. Our approach is based on a nonlinear one-to-one mapping between the analog input and the digital output of the device. We analyze the Bernoull...