Vendor: NEXT Semiconductor Category: ADC

12-bit 12-Gsps ADC

Unleash the power of precision and innovation with the NS_RX_12G_T16, a 12-bit, 12-Gsps Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC).

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Overview

Unleash the power of precision and innovation with the NS_RX_12G_T16, a state-of-the-art 12-bit, 12-Gsps Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC).

This cutting-edge product redefines ADC architectures with its patented Digital Data Conversion technology leveraging time-domain signal processing, ensuring immunity to patent litigation associated with traditional Pipeline and SAR ADC architectures offered by competitors, just do your research.

The NS_RX_12G_T16 is your gateway to enhanced data acquisition capabilities, enabling you to directly sample RF to 10-GHz with self-calibrated precision and proven high volume reliability.

Key features

  • 12-Gsps sample rate (extendable to 24-Gsps)
  • 12 bit resolution (10-bit option)
  • >4X SMALLER than competing solutions
  • >2X LOWER POWER than competing solutions, ~10mW/Gsps
  • MORE ROBUST than competing solutions - software adaptable
  • Embedded RISC-V core enabling software calibration
  • 2T2R silicon prototype evaluation system available
  • Ready for Analog Macro Block (AMB) assembly with multiple ADC, DAC, PLL cores as well as I/O cells, flip-chip packaging bumps, etc. to facilitate system-on-chip integration.

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Benefits

  • Patented Digital Data Conversion technology, ensures immunity to patent litigation associated with traditional Pipeline and SAR ADC architectures offered by competitors, just do your research
  • Our unique architecture allows for a single ADC core to operate ~4X faster than competing architectures thereby reducing the interleaving rate and digital calibration complexity.
  • Patent protected digital timing skew correction (US8654000) is the foundation of all DSP based interleaving correction.

Applications

  • 5G Base stations
  • Automotive Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
  • Direct-RF
  • Multi-carrier and Multi-standard wireless infrastructure
  • Satellite communications
  • Test equipment
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Military and Aerospace: Radar, EW, EA, ISR, ELINT, Communications

What’s Included?

  • Datasheet
  • Userguide
  • Hard Macro (GDSII)
  • CDL Netlist
  • Top-level Abstract View (LEF)
  • Customer Support and integration review

Silicon Options

Foundry Node Process Maturity
TSMC 12nm FFC Silicon Proven

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
NS_RX_12G_T16
Vendor
NEXT Semiconductor

Provider

NEXT Semiconductor
HQ: United States
Founded in 2023 by industry veterans who previously held management and technical leadership roles at Broadcom, Qualcomm, NXP and IQ-Analog, NEXT Semiconductor is a privately held corporation focused on the development of software-defined radio and radar systems with semiconductor-level differentiation leveraging our unique DIGITAL DATA CONVERSION technology.

Learn more about ADC IP core

Uncertainty-Guided Live Measurement Sequencing for Fast SAR ADC Linearity Testing

This paper introduces a novel closed-loop testing methodology for efficient linearity testing of high-resolution Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs). Existing test strategies, including histogram-based approaches, sine wave testing, and model-driven reconstruction, often rely on dense data acquisition followed by offline post-processing, which increases overall test time and complexity.

Three ways of looking at a sigma-delta ADC device

The growing availability of digital ICs like microcontrollers, microprocessors, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) allows developers to use complex digital processing techniques rather than analog signal conditioning. For this reason, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have become a widely-used component in mixed-signal circuits.

Specifying a PLL Part 1: Calculating PLL Clock Spur Requirements from ADC or DAC SFDR

In high end RF systems, such as 5G radios, the requirements are so stringent that the source of this strongest unwanted tone can be the PLL. This article outlines how spurs in the input clock to the ADC or DAC may limit the SFDR. This in turn will set the requirements for the spurs for the input clock (from a PLL), in order to achieve a specific SFDR.

Save power in IoT SoCs by leveraging ADC characteristics

Power-sensitive applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) require a comprehensive power savings strategy within the system-on-chip (SoC). Techniques relying solely on the use of traditional power down modes and low supply voltage may not be enough to achieve the required power targets. The analog block is often assumed to be too sensitive and not compatible with aggressive power management techniques.

High Speed ADC Data Transfer

When continuously running a high speed ADC, it can be a challenge to deal with the firehose of raw data available at the output. To use City Semiconductor’s 2.5 GS/s 12-bit ADC, for example, 30 gigabits per second of data have to be accepted.

Frequently asked questions about ADC IP cores

What is 12-bit 12-Gsps ADC?

12-bit 12-Gsps ADC is a ADC IP core from NEXT Semiconductor listed on Semi IP Hub. It is listed with support for tsmc Silicon Proven.

How should engineers evaluate this ADC?

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