Abstract: There is provided an analog-to-digital conversion apparatus that corrects digital data output from a plurality of analog-to-digital conversion units.

Abstract: An waveform converting apparatus is provided. The waveform converting apparatus includes: an amplitude converting section that multiplies an amplitude component of the input signal more than a predetermined amplitude value by a conversion coefficient which gradually decreases in accordance with the amplitude value; and a filter that removes a frequency component out of the frequency band of the input signal among the frequency components of the signal generated by the amplitude converting section.

Abstract: There is provided a delay amount measuring method of measuring a delay amount in an electronic device that outputs an output signal according to an input signal. The method includes a conversion step of converting the input signal and the output signal into digital data, a shift step of sequentially shifting the digital data of either of the input signal or the output signal in a time direction, an error computing step of computing a squared error of the digital data of the input signal and the digital data of the output signal with respect to each shift amount in the shift step, and a delay amount computing step of computing the shift amount when the squared error is a minimum value by means of a nonlinear least squares method and using the computed shift amount as the delay amount in the electronic device.

Abstract: A mixed signal test system for testing a semiconductor device having both an analog function and a digital function achieves improved resolution and low cost. The test system is formed of a functional test unit for testing a digital function of a device under test (DUT), an analog test unit (ATU) for testing an analog function of the DUT, and a synchronous control unit for synchronizing operations between the functional test unit and the analog test unit. The analog test unit includes a digitizer for converting an analog output of the DUT into a digital signal, and an acquisition memory for storing the digital signal from the digitizer in specified addresses. The wave form of the analog output is repeated by a plurality of cycles and a sampling clock for the digitizer is phase shifted by a predetermined amount for each cycle.

Abstract: There is provided an analog-to-digital conversion apparatus that corrects digital data output from a plurality of analog-to-digital conversion units.

Abstract: There is provided an analog-to-digital conversion apparatus that corrects digital data output from a plurality of analog-to-digital conversion units.

Abstract: There is provided an analog-to-digital conversion apparatus that converts analog signals into digital signals.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converting method for converting an analog signal into a digital signal is provided, wherein the analog-to-digital converting method includes a measuring step of measuring a frequency characteristic of each of analog-to-digital converters in advance, a sampling step of sampling the analog signal, a Fourier transformation step of performing Fourier transformation on the data sampled by the plurality of analog-to-digital converters and generating a plurality of frequency domain signals, a correcting step of converting each of the frequency domain signals into a signal to be acquired in case that the frequency characteristic of corresponding analog-to-digital converter is ideal, by multiplying each of the frequency domain signals by a correction coefficient determined on the basis of the frequency characteristics of all the analog-to-digital converters, and a synthesizing step of synthesizing each of the frequency domain signals acquired at the correcting step and generating a frequency spec

Abstract: There is provided a delay amount measuring method of measuring a delay amount in an electronic device that outputs an output signal according to an input signal. The method includes a conversion step of converting the input signal and the output signal into digital data, a shift step of sequentially shifting the digital data of either of the input signal or the output signal in a time direction, an error computing step of computing a squared error of the digital data of the input signal and the digital data of the output signal with respect to each shift amount in the shift step, and a delay amount computing step of computing the shift amount when the squared error is a minimum value by means of a nonlinear least squares method and using the computed shift amount as the delay amount in the electronic device.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converting method for converting an analog signal into a digital signal is provided, wherein the analog-to-digital converting method includes a measuring step of measuring a frequency characteristic of each of analog-to-digital converters in advance, a sampling step of sampling the analog signal, a Fourier transformation step of performing Fourier transformation on the data sampled by the plurality of analog-to-digital converters and generating a plurality of frequency domain signals, a correcting step of converting each of the frequency domain signals into a signal to be acquired in case that the frequency characteristic of corresponding analog-to-digital converter is ideal, by multiplying each of the frequency domain signals by a correction coefficient determined on the basis of the frequency characteristics of all the analog-to-digital converters, and a synthesizing step of synthesizing each of the frequency domain signals acquired at the correcting step and generating a frequency spec

Abstract: A detector for detecting a signal to be measured, which is made to discrete with a predetermined discrete frequency, is provided, wherein the detector includes an analysis signal transformer for eliminating aliasing components of the signal to be measured, which are generated due to the discreteness, by transforming the signal to be measured into an analysis signal of which the discrete frequency is lower than that of the signal to be measured, and a base band signal generating unit for frequency-shifting the analysis signal and generating a complex base band signal of the signal to be measured.

Abstract: A digitizer module comprises an AD converter for sampling a pair of analog signals at a predetermined time interval and converting into a first and second digital signals respectively, a second signal frequency component calculating unit for calculating a second signal frequency component representing a component of each frequency of the second digital signal on the basis of the second digital signal, a skew frequency component calculating unit for calculating a skew frequency component representing a phase error of each frequency of the second digital signal corresponding to the first digital signal on the basis of a skew of a timing with which the pair of analog signals are sampled by the AD converter and a second signal frequency component correcting unit for correcting the second signal frequency component on the basis of the skew frequency component.

Abstract: A digitizer module comprises an AD converter for sampling a pair of analog signals at a predetermined time interval and converting into a first and second digital signals respectively, a second signal frequency component calculating unit for calculating a second signal frequency component representing a component of each frequency of the second digital signal on the basis of the second digital signal, a skew frequency component calculating unit for calculating a skew frequency component representing a phase error of each frequency of the second digital signal corresponding to the first digital signal on the basis of a skew of a timing with which the pair of analog signals are sampled by the AD converter and a second signal frequency component correcting unit for correcting the second signal frequency component on the basis of the skew frequency component.

Abstract: A digitizer module comprises an AD converter for sampling a pair of analog signals at a predetermined time interval and converting into a first and second digital signals respectively, a second signal frequency component calculating unit for calculating a second signal frequency component representing a component of each frequency of the second digital signal on the basis of the second digital signal, a skew frequency component calculating unit for calculating a skew frequency component representing a phase error of each frequency of the second digital signal corresponding to the first digital signal on the basis of a skew of a timing with which the pair of analog signals are sampled by the AD converter and a second signal frequency component correcting unit for correcting the second signal frequency component on the basis of the skew frequency component.

Abstract: A digitizer module comprises an AD converter for sampling a pair of analog signals at a predetermined time interval and converting into a first and second digital signals respectively, a second signal frequency component calculating unit for calculating a second signal frequency component representing a component of each frequency of the second digital signal on the basis of the second digital signal, a skew frequency component calculating unit for calculating a skew frequency component representing a phase error of each frequency of the second digital signal corresponding to the first digital signal on the basis of a skew of a timing with which the pair of analog signals are sampled by the AD converter and a second signal frequency component correcting unit for correcting the second signal frequency component on the basis of the skew frequency component.

Abstract: A digitizer is provided which includes: N A/D converters for converting an analog signal output from an electronic device to digital signals at different sampling timings by turns (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2); and N digital filters for outputting corrected signals obtained by multiplying the digital signals output from the N A/D converters by correction coefficients, wherein the correction coefficients are based on phase errors between ideal sampling timings at which associated A/D converters are to sample the analog signal and actual sampling timings at which the N A/D converters sampled the analog signal, respectively.

Abstract: A digitizer module comprises an AD converter for sampling a pair of analog signals at a predetermined time interval and converting into a first and second digital signals respectively, a second signal frequency component calculating unit for calculating a second signal frequency component representing a component of each frequency of the second digital signal on the basis of the second digital signal, a skew frequency component calculating unit for calculating a skew frequency component representing a phase error of each frequency of the second digital signal corresponding to the first digital signal on the basis of a skew of a timing with which the pair of analog signals are sampled by the AD converter and a second signal frequency component correcting unit for correcting the second signal frequency component on the basis of the skew frequency component.

Abstract: An interleaving A/D conversion type waveform digitizer module comprising a means for eliminating spurious components resulting from phase errors according to N A/D converters, wherein the digitizer samples signals continually with a predetermined timing corresponding to a interleaving configuration of the A/D converters, receives signals outputted by a tested device to be tested, converts the signals into digital signals, performs Fourier-transform of the digital signals and performs interleaving.

Abstract: An interleaving A/D conversion type waveform digitizer module comprising a means for eliminating spurious components resulting from phase errors according to N A/D converters, wherein the digitizer samples signals continually with a predetermined timing corresponding to a interleaving configuration of the A/D converters, receives signals outputted by a tested device to be tested, converts the signals into digital signals, performs Fourier-transform of the digital signals and performs interleaving.

Abstract: A digitizer module comprises an AD converter for sampling a pair of analog signals at a predetermined time interval and converting into a first and second digital signals respectively, a second signal frequency component calculating unit for calculating a second signal frequency component representing a component of each frequency of the second digital signal on the basis of the second digital signal, a skew frequency component calculating unit for calculating a skew frequency component representing a phase error of each frequency of the second digital signal corresponding to the first digital signal on the basis of a skew of a timing with which the pair of analog signals are sampled by the AD converter and a second signal frequency component correcting unit for correcting the second signal frequency component on the basis of the skew frequency component.