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Claude Prévot: Responsible for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion products at Thales Corporate Service
INTRODUCTION
The market and high-volume, low-cost applications have enabled and forced the industry to develop the best possible product for each application. As technologies improve and the market develops, solutions evolve and products generally become more and more integrated. For example, xDSL modems have gone from a complete board with multiple components from different families to a single component in just a few years, adding a host of functions: high-speed Internet access, fixed telephony (voice over IP) and television (via ADSL) (this offer is often called "triple play"). The same is true of cell phones, which are now made in a single component, adding services such as TV, e-mail and more.
The main criteria for keeping up with the market, offering new services and keeping costs down are: speed, power consumption, precision, size and integration. In complex products, interfaces with the outside world are almost always analog. Input signals generally come from sensors, and output signals generally go to actuators. AN converters are most often associated with sensors, and NA converters with actuators.
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Bibliography
Software tools
On the Analog Devices Inc. website, a number of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog simulation tools and models are available. These range from simple 'on-line' theoretical simulations on their site, to complex models that can be interfaced with tools such as Mathlab, Simulink from The MathWorks and ADS from Agilent.
Time and spectral domains are accessible.
Demonstration...
Websites
On the websites of major manufacturers, under the keywords below, you'll find a wealth of documentation, publications and online videos, ranging from basic knowledge to product details.
The simulation tools provided are also excellent ways of understanding and using the components.
All in English.
Keywords: Application notes, FAQs, Handbooks, Knowledge...
Events
ISCC and Imec organize annual conferences at which, among other things, results on data conversion are regularly presented.
ISCC: International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Website: http://isscc.org/
Imec (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre). Website: http://www.imec.be
...Standards and norms
There are standards or projects on CANs and NACs, but to my knowledge, their use is never cited by manufacturers.
This is probably due to the dynamism of manufacturers and the specificity of each market segment addressed.
Project DYNAD still has a home page on the Internet, but no changes since 2002. (SMT4-CT98-2214 2002)
DYNAD: Methods and...
Directory
Manufacturers – Suppliers – Distributors (non-exhaustive list)
Analog Devices Inc. http://www.analog.com
Broadcom Corporation http://www.broadcom.com
Statistical and economic data
Databeans http://www.databeans.net
IC Insights, Inc. http://www.icinsights.com
The figures in the table 1 are taken from the databeans website.
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