This paper presents an overview of the status of high-speed and high-r
esolution CMOS data converters. Techniques and achieved performance ar
e compared using power consumption per step of resolution as a key par
ameter. The effort in optimizing this quality factor is evident, becau
se of urgency of portable system requirements. Trends towards low-powe
r design and bit-stream processing are also considered. (C) 1995 IEEE.
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