In recent years, the IEEE 1057-94 Standard [1] for specifying and testing m
easurement devices based on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) earned scie
ntific interest in several topics. In particular, investigations showed the
histogram test of the standard to be insensitive to ADC hysteresis. In thi
s paper, an alternative test procedure for determining the dynamic transfer
function of an ADC with hysteresis is proposed. The procedure exploits dig
ital signal processing to reduce the large amount of data required by the h
istogram test. Numerical and experimental results of performance characteri
zation, comparison with a state-of-the-art procedure, and noise-sensitivity
analysis are presented and discussed.