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DAC Standardization and Advanced Testing Methods

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Design, Modeling and Testing of Data Converters

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Nowadays, due to the wide availability and low cost of digital processors, most of the electronic equipment interacting with analogue quantities process the incoming data in digital format and translate the results into the analogue format by means of Digital-to-Analogue Converters (DACs). As a consequence, the quality of the results provided by such equipment depends on the characteristics of the DAC.

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento BN, Italy

    Eulalia Balestrieri, Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito & Sergio Rapuano

  2. Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and System Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende CS, Italy

    Domenico Luca Carnì & Domenico Grimaldi

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Balestrieri, E., Carnì, D.L., Daponte, P., De Vito, L., Grimaldi, D., Rapuano, S. (2014). DAC Standardization and Advanced Testing Methods. In: Carbone, P., Kiaei, S., Xu, F. (eds) Design, Modeling and Testing of Data Converters. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39655-7_12

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