Saturday, June 11, 2022Updated Friday, June 10, 2022 at 7:04:13 p.m.Analog-to-digital converters are a key component of many electronic devices and their function is to convert analog signals (such as a radio wave) into digital signals.To meet the growing demand for mobile technology that also gets the job done as quickly as possible, each year the giants of the home technology market create faster, more powerful devices with longer battery life, outperforming successive previous models.One of the main reasons that companies like Apple and Samsung can miraculously pull it off year after year is because scientists and engineers around the world are designing ever more energy-efficient microchips.Following this trend, the international team of Wood Chiang and Eric Swindlehurst, both from Brigham Young University in the United States, have just manufactured the world's most energy-efficient high-speed analog-to-digital converter microchip.The new converter chip consumes just 21 milliwatts of power at 10 GHz for ultra-wideband wireless communications.Today's converters consume hundreds of milliwatts or even watts of power at comparable speeds.The new converter has the highest energy efficiency currently available in the world, a record it holds by a considerable margin over its closest competitors.The devices that most commonly use WiFi will be the main beneficiaries of the new converter.This will enable faster upload and download speeds and users will be able to watch 4K or even 8K video with little to no lag and no extra drain on battery power.The analog to digital signal converter microchip, seen through a microscope and with some technical indications.(Image: Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang)Other likely applications for the new converter include self-driving vehicles (which use a lot of wireless bandwidth), smart wearables like smart glasses or smart contact lenses, and even implantable medical devices.The creators of the converter chip have published in the academic journal IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits the technical details of their achievement, with the title “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW Time-Interleaved SAR ADC With Grouped DAC Capacitors and Dual -Path Bootstrapped Switch”.(Source: NCYT from Amazings)Copyright © 1996-2022 Amazings® / NCYT® |(Noticiasdelaciencia.com / Amazings.com).All rights reserved.Legal Deposit B-47398-2009, ISSN 2013-6714 - Amazings and NCYT are registered trademarks.Noticiasdelaciencia.com and Amazings.com are the official websites of Amazings.All texts and graphics are the property of their authors.Reproduction is permitted only if credit to the source (NCYT Amazings) and a dofollow link to the original news are included.Except where otherwise noted, this article has been translated, adapted, and supplemented by the Amazings® / NCYT® team.You may also be interested...Write your email and we will send you a link to write a new password.