Breakthrough In Analog To Digital Converters Market: World’s Most Power-Efficient High-Speed ADC Is Developed
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- 16-June-2021
Over time, the mobile industry is experiencing demand for technology that is quick as lightning. Every year tech giants indulge in the race to create more innovative, powerful, and quicker devices that include longer-lasting batteries than the previous devices. The biggest reason why most companies can pull this off is because of the constant efforts of the researchers towards designing microchips that are more and more power-efficient but can still deliver high speed as well.
Another big step in this regard has come up where a research team has built the first-ever world’s most power-efficient high-speed ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) microchip. An ADC is a small piece of technology used for almost all sorts of technology that convert analog signals (similar to a radio wave) to digital signals. This might be a considerable contribution to the Analog to Digital Converters Market as the new technology ought to be popular and will enable tech giants to create technologies that are fast and power-efficient like never before.
The team revealed that the ADC consumes mere 21 milli-Watts of power at 10GHz to complete ultra-wideband wireless communications. At present, ADC’s consume hundreds of milli-Watts or, at times, Watts of power at comparable speeds. The newly BYU-made ADC in this respect has the best power efficiency globally, a record considered to be at a sustainable margin.
The key objective of the researchers was to look into the problem of increasingly higher bandwidths within the communication system devices. This causes circuits to consume more power. The team set out to search for a solution to this setback and focused on the most crucial part of the ADC circuit, known as DAC. It is a central component that stands for the extract reverse of ADC that is Digital – to Analog Converter.
Researchers built a faster and more efficient converter by decreasing the loading from the DAC and by increasing the size of both the capacitor parallel plate area and spacing. The grouped unit capacitors in a non-conventional manner by grouping together the unit capacitors, part of the same bit in the DAC. The act was different from the usual situations where they are interleaved throughout. This resulted in the bottom-plate parasitic capacitance being lowered by almost three times. Thus, lowering power consumption and at the same time increasing the speed.
At last, a bootstrapped switch was used to enhance it by making it a dual path wherein all paths could be independently optimized. The approach helped to increase the speed but doesn’t need any additional hardware as it involves splitting present devices and making route modification in the circuit. There are several applications where the new ADC can be easily included, such as autonomous vehicles, which use a lot of wireless bandwidth, smart wearables (like smart contact lenses or glasses), and even implantable devices.
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