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This chapter starts with a brief introduction of the analog-to-digital conversion process in Sect. 2.1 and a discussion of factors that define the performance of ADCs in Sect. 2.2. ADC performance limitations and trends are addressed in Sect. 2.3. In Sect. 2.4, a brief discussion of popular Nyquist-rate ADC topologies is given where the topologies most relevant to the focus of this book are discussed with the associated tradeoffs. A signal/system-aware design approach which exploits certain signal properties to enhance the ADC performance is discussed in Sect. 2.5 and examples are shown.
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Lin, Y., Hegt, H., Doris, K., van Roermund, A.H.M. (2015). Enhancing ADC Performance by Exploiting Signal Properties. In: Power-Efficient High-Speed Parallel-Sampling ADCs for Broadband Multi-carrier Systems. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17680-2_2
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