[volt-nuts] Transmille 8081
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 22 14:41:20 EDT 2015
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In message <1429713386.29372.25.camel at D2>, Ken Peek writes:
>and balancing JFET switch transitions
>during an ADC cycle is the "secret sauce" that is at the heart of the
>3458A's stellar INL spec. No one else has that. No one else ever will.
>*WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign these days. Just is
>not going to happen...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm pretty sure that's an integral
feature of a number of ADC chips already.
Probably something about a patent expiring...
PS: There's a very instructive walk through the HP multislope in AOE3.
Doesn't really go into the 3458 much, but they lay out how the subsequent
versions in 34401/34972 do things.
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