With wireless services using ever-higher carrier frequencies and data rates on the rise, the need grows more urgent to provide a way to digitize these signals for processing. That typically means greater demand for faster analog-to-digital converters (ADC). To meet this need, ADCs have emerged with sampling rates of > 1 GHz. This article explains the rationale behind using faster ADCs to implement new and existing applications, and provides an example...
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