SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 11, 2011 – National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced a family of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that are the industry’s first to directly sample RF signals beyond 2 ...

High-speed digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with high resolution in the 12- to 14-bit range enable new types of transmitter designs that employ a direct modulation scheme. In such designs, the ...

How and why f max hit a wall at the 28-nm node. Progress in RF signal-chain innovation will come not on ASICs but on FPGAs. Developments in direct data-conversion devices will pave the way to SDM air ...

MDA Space says it demonstrated a Ka-band direct radiating array using direct sampling. In a July 9 announcement, the Montreal-based company claims the direct sampling configuration is an industry ...

Communications receiver architecture has evolved slowly over the years. The most common and successful configuration is the superheterodyne architecture, which translates the incoming signal to a ...

Manual sampling techniques such as hand scoop and spigot sampling are common methods with food and beverage producers and processors. These convenient and low-cost, direct methods are widely accepted ...