A calibration service for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters

A calibration service for high performance 12- to 18-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADC's) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC's) is described. The service offers comprehensive measurements of linearity, differential linearity, gain, offset, and rms input noise (for ADC's), with systematic uncertainties as low as 3 ppm. Measurements are made at a minimum of 1024 different codewords. The measurement approach, design features, test programs, and data reduction techniques are documented, as are the methods of error estimation and quality control. Representative reports of tests are included for both DAC's and ADC's.