The fabrication and testing of single comparators at low and high speeds (up to 10-GHz input bandwidth) to determine basic functionality, dynamic range, linearity, noise level, and dynamic distortions are described. A 4-b converter was tested at low speed without errors. The results indicate that a 6-b converter may be constructed of these comparators with very good linearity and 8 b should be achievable with slight design modification. The comparator was demonstrated to have an aperture uncertainty
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Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:1
,
Issue:
3
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Date of Publication: Sept. 1991