Yesterday Chris Gammell pointed me in the direction of the Analog Devices AD5520, which is pretty close to an entire analog design for a Source Measure Unit in a single chip. And while it’s totally different from a complete instrument, I thought it would be interesting to compare some specs. To see how it performs relative to Keithley’s 2401 SourceMeter and Nation Instruments’ PXIe-4140 Source Measure module, I did some calculations and made a chart over at Element14. Obviously analog engineering is far from in danger, but still the specs are pretty impressive.
See how far Silicon development has come!
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