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Going old school with peak detection

Posted: 16 Jan 2008  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: programmability  digital hardware  analog peak detection  analog circuit 

[Summary of tips] I recently received an e-mail from a student who needed to design a circuit to detect peaks in a 10MHz analog signal. His plan was to use an ADC sampling at well beyond the Nyquist frequency of 20MSps, and then pass the successive converter outputs to a fast processor running a tight, high-priority software loop while disallowi......
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