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analogZONE selects TelASIC's ADC as 2003 Product of the Year
El Segundo, CA (February 9, 2004) – TelASIC Communications, Inc., a mixed-signal IC company that offers world's highest performance ADC, DAC and digital pre-distortion linearizer chips, today announced that its TC1411 Analog-to-Digital converter (ADC) chip has received the analogZONE 2003 "Product of the Year" award in the category of Best Speed Performance ADC.
"We review literally hundreds of products each year," said Paul McGoldrick, Editor-in-Chief of analogZONE. "To achieve Product of the Year honors, the chosen product must be a standout in its class, possessing exceptional technical merit as well as well-targeted marketability."
The TelASIC TC1411 ADC delivers the unprecedented capability of maintaining 102 dB dynamic range in the second Nyquist region (120 MHz to 250 MHz at 250 MSPS) and achieves the highest SNR and Effective Number of Bits (ENOB) of any converter in its class. The part provides greater than 1 GHz of input bandwidth and is usable at IF frequencies above 350 MHz - a level of performance that was deemed unachievable in the analog industry. This capability enables direct sampling at high frequencies and eliminates the traditional multi-stage IF conversions using chain of analog components, resulting in substantial cost savings and an order of magnitude improvement in performance benefits. System designers can now achieve new price/performance levels in a wide range of high volume analog applications such as cellular base stations, fixed wireless infrastructure, medical imaging, high resolution displays, automotive sensing systems, high-speed communications, and test and measurement instrumentation.
"Our measurement applications have the most demanding requirements of maintaining high SNR and dynamic range across the widest input frequency bandwidth," said Tom Burrell, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Signal Analysis Division. "We are pleased to note that TelASIC has achieved breakthroughs in ADC and DAC technologies that address these requirements extremely well."
"We are pleased to receive this award in recognition of achieving a new class of data converter products well suited for high-volume commercial applications. We are also excited about multiple customers’ acceptance of these products so far and will continue to bring more advanced products to the market in the near future," said Don Devendorf, CTO at TelASIC.
About analogZONE
Found online at www.analogzone.com, analogZONE offers timely content tailored to the needs of design engineers specializing in analog applications. Regular weekly features include product reviews, technical notes, guest articles, news items, and more; and the publication has a reputation for incisive product understanding as well as a broad worldwide readership.
Media Contact
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E-mail: info@telasic.com
Phone: +1 310 955 3757
About TelASIC Communications
TelASIC Communications (www.telasic.com) is a leading developer of Remote Radio Head (RRH) products for WCDMA/HSDPA and WiMAX/LTE infrastructure. TelASIC’s highly power-efficient RRHs enable transmission of high output power, which is essential for delivering high data rates and coverage required for mobile TV/video/audio/data-centric 3G data services. The company’s products are based on its world-leading expertise in signal processing algorithms for power amplifier linearization and high performance data converters purpose-built for WCDMA/HSDPA and WiMAX/LTE transmission.
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