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19 years ago

Why Altera do not integrate ADC into CPLD?

Engineers welcome the integrated solution. It do help to save board size and save time on developing and debug work. As the CPLD performance is limited, so middle performance ADC is enough for C...
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19 years ago

I had a similar discussion a few years back. The trouble is, what to _you_ consider a middle performance ADC? 10-bit at 100KHz? 12-bit at 1MHz?

Audio people will want more bits but lower update rates, video people will want fewer bits but high update rates, industrial people will be all over the place. Bo matter what ADC will go into the MAX2, the audience will always find the solution bad ;-)