National Semiconductor is offering a dual-channel 16-bit, 160Msamples/s pipeline analogue-to-digital converter (ADC).

Targeted at multi-carrier, multi-standard GSM/EDGE, WCDMA, LTE and WiMAX wireless basestations, the ADC16DV160 consumes 650mW per ADC channel and has an input-bandwidth of 1.4GHz.

The ADC16DV160 delivers 91.2dB (full scale) spurious-free dynamic range, 76.3dBFS signal-to-noise ratio and 97.3dBFS higher-order harmonic distortion at 197MHz input frequency.

It operates on dual power supplies, 1.8V and 3.0V, with power-down and fast recovery, and features industry-standard dual low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) outputs for interfacing to field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).

An evaluation board interfaces with National’s WaveVision 5 software and data capture board.