Laboratory 2: Research: State of the art commercial data converters

Setting:

You want to know, if there is a difference between published data converters and commercially available data converters. You already have some names of companies producing data converters:

Analog Devices
Linear Technology
National Semiconductor

There are also some distributers (for example: digikey), where you can check availability and prices.

Task:

Do you know any other data converter manufacturers?
Do you have a preferred distributor?
Select 5 devices (DA and AD converters each) which became recently available, have an evaluation board and compare performance and price.

Use the following table format:

Reso- lution (Bits)	Sam- ple rate [MHz]	Power consumption [W]	Architecture	Power supply voltage [V]	ADC Input range, DAC out- put range	Number of converters	Price [$]	Typ: ADC, DAC	Manufacturer	Distributor	Web site
12	900	NA	Pipelined	1.8	3.3	2	472	ADC	TI	Digikey	1

[1] Digikey: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/integrated-circuits-ics/data-acquisition-analog-to-digital-converters-adc/

Try to find 3 data converters having a C2C DAC? If you don't find any document, do a general search on the internet.
What is the difference between published data converters and commercially available?

Make a report and submit o pdf file or make a report as a web page.

You can use the source code of this web page or there is a web page template available here.
Additional files are here as an zip file (39 MB).

Send a ziped group directory with your data containing also a printout of the webpage in a pdf file to joerg.vollrath@fh-kempten.de.

You can use the freeware program PDF Creator for generating the pdf file.

The directory should be named with the year, group number and last name

<year>_Group<###>_<Last_name>
Example: 2017_Group01_Vollrath

In this directory put the html and pdf file.
The file name should contain the date, the laboratory and your last names.

<year>_<month>_<Date>_InEl_Lab02_<Last_name1>_<Last_Name2>.pdf
Example: 2017_10_24_InEl_Lab02_Vollrath_studentx.html
Example: 2017_10_24_InEl_Lab02_Vollrath_studentx.pdf

Grading:

Each question should be answered. The answer should be correct/make sense. The submission date will be graded. Submission should happen until next week's laboratory. Late submission will be downgraded. A nice document format and correct use of English language and spelling is graded.