Data Converters

Focuses on analog/digital converters in bipolar and CMOS technologies. The course content includes discussions of applications, appropriate system specifications, circuit elements, topology tradeoffs, and history.

1. Introduction to Data Converters
   • Resolution
   • Sampling
   • Quantization
2. Figures of merit in time and frequency
   • Static parameters
   • Frequency-domain dynamic parameters
   • Time-domain dynamic parameters
   • ADC Comparisons
3. Converter testing techniques
   • Coherence
   • Sine-wave curve fit
   • Servo-loop test
   • Histogram test
4. Digital-to-analog circuits
   • Voltage
   • Current
   • Time
   • Charge
5. Commercial DAC designs
   • Resistor DACs (R2R and strings)
   • Charge scaling and capacitor arrays
   • Subranging strings
   • Segmented and unary-weighted arrays
   • Dynamic element matching
   • Current source calibration
6. Analog-to-digital techniques
   • Flash and interpolating
   • Successive-approximation register
   • Serial and pipelined
   • Counting and integrating
7. Commercial ADC designs
   • History
   • Commercial parts
8. Calibration and oversampling converters
   • Oversampling
   • Calibration
9. High-speed sample-and-hold circuits
   • Applications
   • Sampling oscilloscopes
   • High-speed topologies
   • Diodes
10. High-accuracy sample-and-hold circuits
    • High-accuracy topologies
    • Accurate switches
    • Commercial circuits
    • Capacitors

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Lecturer

Kent H. Lundberg is an educator, consultant, and historian. He is president of Keeling Flight Hardware, Ltd., which provides design, research, and educational consulting services in the fields of aerospace, electronics, and control systems for companies, universities, and government organizations.

Since 2008, Dr. Lundberg has been a Visiting Professor at Olin College of Engineering, where he teaches courses in controls, circuit design, and instrumentation. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research and teaching interests include the application of classical control theory to problems in analog circuit design, and the development of educational toys (lecture demos, take-home laboratory kits, and tutorial computer applications) for feedback systems and control engineering.

Dr. Lundberg has been the Associate Editor for History of IEEE Control Systems Magazine since 2004. He attended M.I.T. earning a Bachelor's degree in physics in 1992, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2002. He owns 21 Tektronix oscilloscopes, and he obsessive-compulsively collects analog synthesizers, technology artifacts, and classic textbooks on radar, nuclear energy, analog computing, and control.