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Question 454

Why are direct or flash conversion analog-to-digital converters used for a software defined radio?

  1. Very low power consumption decreases frequency drift
  2. Immunity to out-of-sequence coding reduces spurious responses
  3. Very high speed allows digitizing high frequenciesCorrect answer
  4. All these choices are correct

Explanation

A flash converter resolves an entire sample in one clock cycle using a bank of parallel comparators, which gives the very high sampling rates a software defined radio needs to digitize high frequencies directly. That speed comes at the cost of high power consumption and a large comparator count, so the combined answer is wrong.

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