Glossary of Frequently Used High-Speed Data Converter Terms

Abstract: The glossary provides a detailed description of AC performance terms related to high-speed data converters such as ADCs and DACs. It also gives some insight into the test conditions these parameters are specified for.
Maxim > App Notes > A/D and D/A CONVERSION/SAMPLING CIRCUITS HIGH-SPEED SIGNAL PROCESSING

Keywords: aliasing, aperture, INL, crosstalk, coherent sampling, common-mode, DNL, dithering, ENOB, flash, Mar 22, 2001
frequency bin, glitch energy, latency, monotonicity, intermodulation, SNR, NPR, quantization, SFDR, SINAD,
spectral leakage, THD, VSWR

APPLICATION NOTE 740
Glossary of Frequently Used High-Speed Data Converter
Terms

Abstract: The glossary provides a detailed description of AC performance terms related to high-speed data
converters such as ADCs and DACs. It also gives some insight into the test conditions these parameters are
specified for.


Aliasing/Anti-Aliasing

In sampling theory, an input signal (fIN) must be sampled with at least twice its frequency (Nyquist crit