DesignWare Data Converters 

Overview 

The growth of communications and consumer electronics is driving developers to provide constant innovation, higher performance, extended battery life, support for smaller geometries, and a richer feature set. Synopsys offers a comprehensive portfolio of silicon-proven single blocks and complete analog front end (AFE) solutions for consumer electronics and communications.
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Comprehensive portfolio of ADCs supporting speeds from 4MHz up to greater than 100MHz


 
Comprehensive portfolio of very high speed, communications, video and auxiliary DACs

Excellence; Expertise
  • High-Performance (e.g. 97 dB @ < 6mW power consumption)
  • Leading provider of Audio IP
  • Application expertise from low-power/compact area for digital microphones to Hi-Fi audio systems
  • Extensive video application expertise
Comprehensive Portfolio
  • High-speed, compact and low-power data converters and AFEs for data communications, broadband wireless communications, video, touchscreens, etc.
  • Broadband wireless communications application expertise
  • Ultra high-speed ADC design and mature platform suitable for UWB, 60 GHz & Blu-ray Disc™
  • Unique Touchscreen controller built on a mature ADC platform
Applications IP Type Resolution
(bits)
Conversion Rate
Broadband Wireless Communications
WiFi/WLAN802.11x(m)WiMAX/Wibro, LTE
IQADC (Dual ADC) 10-bit/12-bit Up to 80MHz (Typ=25/40/44/80)
IQDAC (Dual DAC) 10-bit/12-bit Up to 80MHz (Typ=25/40/44/80
Auxiliary ADCs/DACs 8-bit/10-bit/11-bit Up to 20MHz (Typ=2/20)
Analog Front Ends (AFEs) AFE = ADCs + DACs + Other Blocks
Broadcast Receivers
(DVB, DMB, DVB, ISDB)
IQADC/ADC 10-bit 8.192MHz, 50MHz, etc
UWB (e.g. W-USB) & 60GHz/Wireless HD Video) IQADC (Dual ADC) 6-bit/... Up to 1.5GHz and Higher
IQDAC (Dual DAC) 6-bit/... Up to 1.5GHz and Higher
Blu-ray DiskTM ADC 6-bit Up to 1.5GHz
Analog Video Input Video ADC / AFE 8/10/12-bit Up to 165MHz/205MHz
Analog Video Output Video DAC 10/12-bit Up to 200/250/300MHz
Touchscreen Controller (TSC) TSC (Special AFE) 10-bit/12-bit Typ = 125kHz
Housekeeping ADCs, Aux. DACs (All Types of Applications) Low-speed ADCs 8/10/12-bit A few kHz to 2MHz & Higher


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