MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2010

ADC or DAC interview questions

Hey geeks, the below is a set of possible ADC/DAC basic questions that can appear in an interview. 1. What are the factors you consider for the selection of ADC ? 2. What do you mean by Resolution of ADC ? 3. How do you determine the number of bits of ADC is required for you ? 4. Which factor determines the number of iterations in SAR done to approximate the input voltage ? 5. What are the 2 methods of ADC interface ? 6. Can you brief up the steps involved in ADC interface with 8051 or any microprocessor for the EOC based method ? 7. Can you brief up the steps involved in ADC interface with 8051 or any microprocessor for the Interrupt based method ? 8. How do you select the particular channel of a ADC . For example, can you tell for ADC0809 ? 9. When will you make the OE high in case of ADC0809 ? 10. What will happen if SC and EOC are tied together in ADC0809 ? 11. What is sampling rate/frequency ? 12. What is the use of interpolation formula ? Are you aware of any interpolation formula ? 13. What is sample and hold ? 14. Are there any Megasample / Gigasample converters ? Where are they used ? 15. What is aliasing ? 16. What is Nyquist-Shannon theorem ? 17. Is it good to sample at a rate that is higher than that of Nyquist Frequency ? 18. What is quantization error and when does it occur ? What is the unit of measurement of it ? 19. How can dithering improve digitization of slowly varying signal ? 20. Which type of ADC implementation is good or should be chosen, if we need lot of channels ? Well, try to answer these questions and that might be very helpful for your interview in embedded (ADC/DAC) . All the Best !