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AN642 Analog-to-Digital Converter Captures 1Gsps

A/D and D/A CONVERSION/SAMPLING CIRCUITS HIGH-SPEED SIGNAL PROCESSING Application Note 642: Jan 22, 2001 Analog-to-Digital Converter Captures 1Gsps One of the industry's first ultra high-speed, 8-bit data converters with highest AC performance and a GHz input bandwidth, the MAX104/6/8 family of data converters offers both sampling speed and signal bandwidt.

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such as trench isolation, that are incorporated in Maxim's lower performance GST-1 process. Figure 1. This simplified block diagram shows how the MAX104 integrates a high-bandwidth T/H amplifier with a high-speed quantizer. Although many of the outstanding performance parameters of the MAX104 are possible with the integrated-circuit process (such as a transition frequency of 27GHz for NPN transistors, a three-metal interconnect system, small geometry, and precision laser-trimmed nickel-chrome (NiCr) thin-film www.maxim-ic.com/an642 Page 1 of 7 resistors), additional credit goes to the MAX1.