Chapter 11

High-Performance Digital-to-Analog Converters for Wireless Infrastructure

Gil Engel and Gabriele Manganaro,    Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA 01887, USA

Introduction

The rapid expansion of consumer demand for data services of all types has caused service providers in wired and wireless communications to improve the data-handling capability of their networks. Cable service providers work to improve video quality from analog to digital to high definition, and then to include an internet service at higher and higher data rates, both downstream and upstream. Wireless service providers moved from analog to digital cellular to support more voice services, and now are upgrading networks to 4G and beyond to satisfy their customers’ ...

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