Settling Time Testing of Fast DACs

SECTION 5.1: TESTING DACs

Space races: settling the universe fast

This report examines the issue of the resource demands and constraints for very fast large-scale settlement by technologically mature civilizations. I derive various bounds due to the energy and matter requirements for relativistic probes, and compare with bounds due to the need to avoid collisions with interstellar dust. When two groups of the same species race for the universe, the group with...

Amplifier Design for Fast Settling Performance

A design strategy for minimizing a feedback amplifier’s step-response settling time is introduced. Central to this approach is the clear identification of the independent design parameters characterizing the amplifier and the introduction of a figure of merit for assessing the settling performance of an amplifier that is independent of power, supply voltage and capacitive loading. With this app...

A Fast-Settling, High Dynamic Range

In this project, we have designed a fully-differential operational transconductance amplifier with capacitive feedback network producing a close-loop gain of 0.2. The OTA was designed in the single-stage telescopic topology and simulation with HSPICE and achieved a very fast settling time of less than 5ns and a settling accuracy of at least 0.2%. The OTA has the differential output swing of ±1....

The settling-time reducibility ordering

To each computable enumerable (c.e.) set A with a particular enumeration {As}s∈ω, there is associated a settling function mA(x), where mA(x) is the last stage when a number less than or equal to x was enumerated into A. One c.e. set A is settling time dominated by another set B (B >st A) if for every computable function f , for all but finitely many x, mB(x) > f(mA(x)). This settling-time order...