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Jorge Villa1, José I Artigas2, Luis A Barragán3
1Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications, I3A, Universidad de Zaragoza, María de Luna 1, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain. jvillal@unizar.es.
Abstract:
Successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) manufacturers recommend the use of a driver amplifier to achieve the best performance. When a driver amplifier is not used, the conversion speed is severely penalized because of the need to meet the settling time constraint. This paper proposes a simple digital correction method to raise the performance (conversion speed and/or accuracy) when the acquisition chain lacks a driver amplifier. It is intended to reduce the cost, size and power consumption of the conditioning circuit while maintaining acceptable performance. The method is applied to the measurement of the output power delivered by a series resonant inverter for domestic induction heating.
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