Synopsys DesignWare Data Converter IP Solutions 

Overview 

The growth of communications and consumer electronics is driving developers to provide constant innovation, higher performance, extended battery life, support for smaller geometries and a richer feature set. Synopsys offers a comprehensive portfolio of silicon-proven data converter IP solutions for consumer electronics and communication applications.

Synopsys' DesignWare Data Converter IP solution includes a comprehensive portfolio of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for broadband wireless communications, wired communications, video and general purpose applications. Available in multiple process technologies, from 180 nanometer (nm) to 40 nm, the DesignWare Data Converter IP portfolio includes: video DAC, oversampling sigma-delta ADC, pipeline ADC, SAR ADC, current steering DAC and more.

Combined with advanced design techniques and a robust feature set, Synopsys enables SoC developers to easily incorporate high-performance, small area and low power DesignWare Data Converter IP into their systems-on-chip (SoCs) and achieve first pass silicon success.
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Comprehensive portfolio of ADCs supporting speeds from 4MHz up to greater than 100MHz


 
Comprehensive portfolio of very high speed, communications, video and auxiliary DACs

  • High-speed, compact and low-power data converters for data communications, broadband wireless communications, video, touch screens, etc.
  • Broadband wireless communications application expertise
  • Ultra high-speed ADC design and mature platform suitable for UWB, 60 GHz & Blu-ray Disc™
  • Unique touch screen controller built on a mature ADC platform
  • Extensive video application expertise
  • Available in multiple process technologies from 180 nanometer (nm) down to 40 nm
Applications IP Type Resolution
(bits)
Conversion Rate
Broadband Wireless Communications
WiFi/WLAN802.11x(m)WiMAX/Wibro, LTE
IQADC (Dual ADC) 10-bit/12-bit Up to 80MHz (Typ=25/40/44/80)
IQDAC (Dual DAC) 10-bit/12-bit Up to 80MHz (Typ=25/40/44/80
Auxiliary ADCs/DACs 8-bit/10-bit/11-bit Up to 20MHz (Typ=2/20)
Analog Front Ends (AFEs) AFE = ADCs + DACs + Other Blocks
Broadcast Receivers
(DVB, DMB, DVB, ISDB)
IQADC/ADC 10-bit 8.192MHz, 50MHz, etc
UWB (e.g. W-USB) & 60GHz/Wireless HD Video) IQADC (Dual ADC) 6-bit/... Up to 1.5GHz and Higher
IQDAC (Dual DAC) 6-bit/... Up to 1.5GHz and Higher
Blu-ray DiskTM ADC 6-bit Up to 1.5GHz
Analog Video Input Video ADC / AFE 8/10/12-bit Up to 165MHz/205MHz
Analog Video Output Video DAC 10/12-bit Up to 200/250/300MHz
Touchscreen Controller (TSC) TSC (Special AFE) 10-bit/12-bit Typ = 125kHz
Housekeeping ADCs, Aux. DACs (All Types of Applications) Low-speed ADCs 8/10/12-bit A few kHz to 2MHz & Higher


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