The ADS54J40 is a low-power, wide-bandwidth, 14-bit, 1.0-GSPS, dual-channel, analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Designed for high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the device delivers a noise floor of –158 dBFS/Hz for applications aiming for highest dynamic range over a wide instantaneous bandwidth. The device supports the JESD204B serial interface with data rates up to 10.0 Gbps, supporting two or four lanes per ADC. The buffered analog input provides uniform input impedance across a wide frequency range and minimizes sample-and-hold glitch energy. Each ADC channel optionally can be connected to a wideband digital down-converter (DDC) block. The ADS54J40 provides excellent spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) over a large input frequency range with very low power consumption.

The JESD204B interface reduces the number of interface lines, allowing high system integration density. An internal phase-locked loop (PLL) multiplies the ADC sampling clock to derive the bit clock that is used to serialize the 14-bit data from each channel.

The ADC12J1600 and ADC12J2700 devices are wideband sampling and digital tuning devices. Texas Instruments’ giga-sample analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology enables a large block of frequency spectrum to be sampled directly at RF. An integrated DDC (Digital Down Converter) provides digital filtering and down-conversion. The selected frequency block is made available on a JESD204B serial interface. Data is output as baseband 15-bit complex information for ease of downstream processing. Based on the digital down-converter (DDC) decimation and link output rate settings, this data is output on 1 to 5 lanes of the serial interface.

A DDC bypass mode allows the full rate 12-bit raw ADC data to also be output. This mode of operation requires 8 lanes of serial output.

The ADC12J1600 and ADC12J2700 devices are available in a 68-pin VQFN package. The device operates over the Industrial (–40°C ≤ TA ≤ 85°C) ambient temperature range.

The SMJ320C67x DSPs are the floating-point DSP family in the SMJ320C6000 platform. The SMJ320C6701 (’C6701) device is based on the high-performance, advanced VelociTI very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) architecture developed by Texas Instruments (TI), making this DSP an excellent choice for multichannel and multifunction applications. With performance of up to 1 giga floating-point operations per second (GFLOPS) at a clock rate of 140 MHz, the ’C6701 offers cost-effective solutions to high-performance DSP programming challenges. The ’C6701 DSP possesses the operational flexibility of high-speed controllers and the numerical capability of array processors. This processor has 32 general-purpose registers of 32-bit word length and eight highly independent functional units. The eight functional units provide four floating-/fixed-point ALUs, two fixed-point ALUs, and two floating-/fixed-point multipliers. The ’C6701 can produce two multiply-accumulates (MACs) per cycle for a total of 334 million MACs per second (MMACS). The ’C6701 DSP also has application-specific hardware logic, on-chip memory, and additional on-chip peripherals.

The ’C6701 includes a large bank of on-chip memory and has a powerful and diverse set of peripherals. Program memory consists of a 64K-byte block that is user-configurable as cache or memory-mapped program space. Data memory consists of two 32K-byte blocks of RAM. The peripheral set includes two multichannel buffered serial ports (McBSPs), two general-purpose timers, a host-port interface (HPI), and a glueless external memory interface (EMIF) capable of interfacing to SDRAM or SBSRAM and asynchronous peripherals.

The ’C6701 has a complete set of development tools that includes a new C compiler, an assembly optimizer to simplify programming and scheduling, and a Windows debugger interface for visibility into source code execution.