Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-19 Thread Douglas Taylor
On 8/18/2015 7:01 PM, dwight wrote: Reading the note made me think of something else. If it is an SAR, and you read to soon, the LSBs of the incomplete conversion will always be the same. All ones or all zeros. If it is a Sigma-Delta, and the input has noise on it that is above the same rate,

Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-18 Thread Douglas Taylor
On 8/15/2015 12:40 PM, tony duell wrote: I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC used in these instruments is a 16bit

Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread Jon Elson
On 08/15/2015 11:18 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote: I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC used in these instruments is a 16bit

RE: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread dwight
Subject: RE: Analog to Digital Converter Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 16:40:40 + I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC

RE: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread tony duell
I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC used in these instruments is a 16bit 100ksample/sec design. The ADC is in a 3 by 4

RE: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 12:56 AM 8/16/2015, Dwight wrote: Most of these older module use successive approximation converters. If you read them too fast, you'll only get a partial conversion. I'll second that. The ones I have seen most often (in another industry) were Harris. For those who would like who would

RE: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread dwight
I was thinking that around this time, dual slop detectors were becoming popular but it is unlikely this is your problem. If reading a dual slope before conversion is complete, the value read would be low in value, not just missing LSBs. They were generally slower as well but often in the 16 or

Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 8/15/15 6:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote: DDC made a number of hybrid ADCs, but I've never seen one that was 3 x 4! That's really big. Some of the Data Translation modules were that big. The normally had the block diagram / part number / and Data Translation silk screened on the top of them. ADAC

Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread Douglas Taylor
: a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Analog to Digital Converter Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 16:40:40 + I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a detector, the data can be from 512

Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread Douglas Taylor
On 8/15/2015 12:40 PM, tony duell wrote: I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC used in these instruments is a 16bit

Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-16 Thread Douglas Taylor
On 8/16/2015 8:24 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 8/15/15 6:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote: DDC made a number of hybrid ADCs, but I've never seen one that was 3 x 4! That's really big. Some of the Data Translation modules were that big. The normally had the block diagram / part number / and Data