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Synchronous and asynchronous A-D conversion

Lookup NU author(s): Professor David Kinniment, Professor Alex Yakovlev, Bin Gao

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Abstract

Analog-digital (A-D) converters with a fixed conversion time are subject to errors due to metastability. It is shown that an asynchronous converter in which the conversion time is not bounded is faster, on average, than the synchronous design. Real-time applications require the data to be produced within a fixed time, and failures may occur with the long conversion times that can arise with fully asynchronous converters. For these applications, we show that an internally asynchronous bounded time converter is both faster and more reliable than a synchronous converter.

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Author(s): Kinniment D, Yakovlev A, Gao B

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Year: 2000

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Pages: 217-220

Print publication date: 01/01/2000

ISSN (print): 1063-8210

ISSN (electronic): 1557-9999

Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/92.831441

DOI: 10.1109/92.831441

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