Precision ADCs
Broad portfolio of SAR and delta-sigma ADCs with easy-to-use design resources
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Our analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) offer as much as 32-bit resolution to deliver unmatched accuracy, faster throughput, and low power consumption in a compact footprint. Offered in a variety of successive approximation register (SAR) and delta-sigma architectures, our ADCs have the flexibility and reliability you need for your most demanding applications.
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Precision ADCs for all your design needs
Achieve superior precision
Process and generate higher-quality data with our ADCs, ensuring end-to-end accuracy in your application through lower noise, higher resolution and lower drift across wider temperature ranges.
Maximize system bandwidth
Convert high-resolution data at low latency with our high-throughput, precision ADCs for a faster update rate and settling time to process more channels.
Get more per milliwatt with low-power, precision ADC
Maximize battery life with our low-power precision ADCs featuring flexible power-down modes, autonomous alarm monitoring with microcontroller wake-up and low-voltage operation.
Shrink your board
Achieve smaller size or higher channel density, while maintaining high performance, with some of the world’s tiniest ADCs. Our small-size package options include X2SON and WCSP.
Technical resources
A Basic Guide to RTD Measurements (Rev. A)
Analog Engineer’s Circuit Cookbook: Data Converters (Rev. B)
A Basic Guide to Bridge Measurements (Rev. A)
Discover featured applications
High resolution, simultaneous sampling ADCs for energy calculations in electricity metering.
Our high-accuracy simultaneous sampling ADCs are low power and come in very small packages. Use a precision ADC to gain flexibility in selecting the MCU while maintaining accurate energy consumption calculations.
- Reliable calculations: high dynamic range (100dB) allowing for best in class accuracy
- Enables efficient energy measurements: lower power consumption (3.3 mw)
- Maximize board space: small (3mm x 3mm) QFN packages available
Featured resources
- A Basic Guide to Bridge Measurements (Rev. A) – Application note
Low noise, high precision ADCs to measure flow, temperature, and pressure in medical applications.
Use a Precision ADC with an integrated analog front-end and low-noise PGA to reduce signal chain complexity and size while measuring RTDs, thermocouples, thermistors, and bridge sensors in temperature and pressure sensing applications.
- Integrated analog front-end: reduce complexity of signal chain and size while maintaining precision
- Provide reliable patient diagnostic information: Low noise (19 nVRMS at Gain = 128) and high precision (24-bits)
Featured resources
- A Basic Guide to RTD Measurements (Rev. A) – Application note
Precision ADCs designed to deliver strong DC performance in sensing applications for common process variables.
Field transmitters monitor process variables including temperature, pressure, weight, and others common in factory automation & control. TI’s Field transmitter ADCs feature strong DC performance at room temperature, along with performance across a wide operating temperature, and low quiescent current.
- Flexibility in scaling power consumption and data-rate numbers: ADC power consumption scales linearly with data rate requirements of sensors.
- High performance delivered: High resolution (24 bits) along with low-power (280μA) and very small packages.
Featured resources
- TIDA-00168 – Thermocouple AFE Using RTD or Integrated Temperature Sensor for Cold Junction Compensation (CJC)
- TIDA-00095 – RTD Temperature Transmitter for 2-wire, 4 to 20-mA Current Loop Systems
- TIDA-00189 – Isolated Loop Powered Thermocouple Transmitter Reference Design
- ADS124S08 – 24-bit, 4-kSPS, 12-ch delta-sigma ADC with PGA and voltage reference for sensor measurement
- ADS1220 – 24-bit, 2-kSPS, four-channel, low-power, delta-sigma ADC with PGA, VREF, SPI and two IDACs
- ADS122C04 – 24-bit, 2-kSPS, 4-ch, low-power, small-size delta-sigma ADC with PGA, VREF, 2x IDACs & I2C interface
- ADS124S08EVM – ADS124S08 evaluation module
- ADS1220EVM – ADS1220 evaluation module
- ADS122C04EVM – ADS122C04 evaluation module
- A Basic Guide to Bridge Measurements (Rev. A) – Application note
- A Basic Guide to RTD Measurements (Rev. A) – Application note
- PSPICE-FOR-TI – PSpice® for TI design and simulation tool
- ADC-RTD-CONFIG-CALC – Resistance temperature detector (RTD) configuration calculator for precision ADCs
- ADC-TEMP-SENSOR-FW – Temperature-sensor (RTD, thermocouple, thermistor) firmware for precision ADCs
Highly accurate, wide-bandwidth precision ADCs for position, current and voltage sensing in robotic applications
Enable precise current and position measurements in robotic systems utilizing highly accurate precision ADCs. Our high-speed, high-resolution ADCs are designed to provide accurate and reliable results with minimal latency.
Benefits:
- For position sensing, our precision ADCs have an integrated driver reduce to noise and latency in position feedback control loops.
- For current and voltage sensing, our precision ADCs measure current and voltage from different sensor types.
Featured resources
- ADS7057EVM-PDK – ADS7057 14-Bit, 2.5MSPS, Small-Size Low-Power SAR ADC Performance Demonstration Kit (PDK)
- ADS8688EVM-PDK – ADS8688 16-bit, 500-kSPS, 8-channel, single-supply, SAR ADC EVM performance demonstration kit (PDK)
- Precision ADCs in Servo Drives (Rev. A) – Application brief
- Precision ADCs for Motor Encoders and Position Sensing (Rev. A) – Product overview
High-speed, high-resolution ADCs for precise semiconductor parameter measurement in all types of testers
Enable precise semiconductor parameter measurement in all types of testers, including parallel execution (PE), parametric measurement unit (PMU) and digital pattern stimulus (DPS) tester cards. Our high-speed, high-resolution and small-size ADCs are designed to provide accurate and reliable results, even in high-speed, high-accuracy applications.
Benefits:
- Channel-dense solutions optimize board space.
- Fast channel throughput helps reduce overall test times.
Featured resources
- ADS9813 – Eight-channel, 18-bit, 2-MSPS/ch simultaneous sampling ADC with integrated analog front end
- ADS9817 – Eight-channel, 18-bit, 2-MSPS/ch dual simultaneous-sampling ADC with integrated analog front end
- ADS8588S – 16-Bit High-Speed 8-Channel Simultaneous-Sampling ADC With Bipolar Inputs on a Single Supply
- ADS9813EVM – ADS9813 evaluation module
- ADS9817EVM – ADS9817 evaluation module
- ADS8588SEVM-PDK – ADS8588S 16-Bit High-Speed 8-Ch Simultaneous-Sampling ADC EVM Performance Demonstration Kit (PDK)
- Precision ADC for Measuring Analog Outputs of Parametric Measurement Unit (PMU) (Rev. B) – Application brief
- Higher precision ADCs to monitor automated testers and encoders – Technical article
Space-grade, enhanced-product and Space-Enhanced Plastic high-precision ADCs measure voltage, current and temperature in space mission, avionics and defense applications
Our high-reliability ADC portfolio offers solutions for all orbit levels. Use radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant ADCs for space projects, and enhanced-product ADCs for high-altitude projects.
Benefits:
- Radiation hardened: high total ionizing dose (100krad) and single-event latchup (120MeV).
- Extended temperature range (–55°C to 125°C) performs in extreme climates.
- Portfolio comprises a wide range of resolutions (12 to 31 bits), sample rates (4kSPS to 1,000 kSPS) and channel counts (two to 16).
Featured resources
- TIDA-010197 – Versatile satellite health monitoring and control platform reference design with < 1% accuracy
- TIDA-060042 – Series resistance temperature detector (RTD) sensing reference design
- ADC128S102QML-SP – Radiation-hardened, eight-channel, 50-kSPS to 1-MSPS, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
- ADC168M102R-SEP – Radiation-tolerant, 8-channel, 1MSPS, 16-bit, simultaneous-sampling SAR ADC
Precision ADCs design & development
Accelerate your design process with our powerful tools and resources. From concept to production, we make it easy to optimize your analog signal-chain performance.
Search the precision ADC parametric table to find the best device for your application needs.
Evaluate the functionality of analog circuits with the PSpice® for TI design and simulation environment.
Search our repository of firmware examples for controlling, configuring, reading and interacting with our products.
Learn how to take full advantage of the features and performance of ADCs in these educational videos.
Use the analog circuit calculator to accelerate repetitive calculations that analog circuit design engineers use regularly.
Check out the TI E2E™ design support forums for help throughout every step of the design process.
Design & development resources
Analog engineer's calculator
The analog engineer’s calculator is designed to speed up many of the repetitive calculations that analog circuit design engineers use on a regular basis. This PC-based tool provides a graphical interface with a list of various common calculations ranging from setting operational-amplifier (...)
Precision ADC Github
Temperature-sensor (RTD, thermocouple, thermistor) firmware for precision ADCs
This temperature-sensor linearization firmware provides a software routine for measuring and linearizing most common temperature sensors, including resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), thermocouples, thermistors (NTC, PTC, etc.) and analog temperature sensors.
This software includes an (...)