1.

How many control lines are present in analog to digital converter in addition to reference
voltage?
a)Three
b)Two
c)One
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: ADC usually has two additional control lines
1. Start input-tell ADC when to start conversion.
2. EOC- end of conversion.

2. Find out the integrating type analog to digital converter?

a) Flash type converter
b) Tracking converter
c) Counter type converter
d) Dual slope ADC
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: Other than dual slope ADC the rest belongs to direct type ADCs.

3. Which type of ADC follow the conversion technique of changing the analog input signal to
a linear function of frequency?
a) Direct type ADC
b) Integrating type ADC
c) Both integrating and direct type ADC
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Integrating type ADC performs conversion in an indirect manner by first changing
the analog input signal to a linear function of time or frequency and then to a digital code.
4. Which A/D converter is considered to be simplest, fastest and most expensive?
a) Servo converter
b) Counter type ADC
c) Flash type ADC
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The simplest possible A/D converter is flash type converter and is expensive for
high degree of accuracy.

5. The flash type A/D converters are called as

a) Parallel non-inverting A/D converter
b) Parallel counter A/D converter
c) Parallel inverting A/D converter
d) Parallel comparator A/D converter
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: The flash type A/D converter are also called as parallel comparator A/D converter
because the purpose of the circuit is to compare the analog input voltage with each node
voltage.

6. What is the advantage of using flash type A/D converter?

a) High speed conversion
b) Low speed conversion
c) Nominal speed conversion
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: Flash type ADC has the advantage of high speed as the conversion takes place
simultaneously rather than sequentially. Typical conversion time is 100nanosecond or less.
7. The number of comparator required for flash type A/D converter
a) Triples for each added bit
b) Reduce by half for each added bit
c) Double for each added bit
d) Doubles exponentially for each added bit
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The number of comparator required almost doubles for each added bit. For
example – 2 -bit ADC requires three comparators, 3 -bit ADC needs seven comparators and
a 4 -bit ADC requires fifteen comparators.

9. Calculate the conversion time of a 12-bit counter type ADC with 1MHz clock frequent to
convert a full scale input?
a) 4.095 µs
b) 4.095ms
c) 4.095s
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: conversion time = 2n -1 clock periods = (12n-1) = 4.095ms.

10. In a servo tracking A/D converter, the input voltage is greater than the DAC output signal
at this condition
a) The counter count up
b) The counter count down
c) The counter back and forth
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: In servo converter, the circuit consist of an up/down counter with comparator
controlling direction of the count. So, if the input voltage is greater than DAC output signal, the
output of comparator goes high and counter is caused to count up.

12. How many clock pulses do a successive approximation converter requires for obtaining a
digitaloutput.
a)Twelve
b)Six
c)Eight
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: The successive approximation technique uses a very efficient code search
strategy to compute n-bit conversion in just n-clock period.

ADC input is sampled by

A. Nyquist rate
B. Newton rate
C. Ohms rate
D. Lens rate

A
1. At what condition the digital to analog conversion is made?

a) Va > Vd
b) Va ≤ Vd
c) Va ≥ Vd
d) Va ≠ Vd
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: When Va < Vd, the output of the comparator becomes low and the AND gate is
disabled. This stops the counting at that time and the digital output of the counter represents
the analog input voltage.

2.
If a input at Va is 1010, then find the correct conversion sequence for the given circuit.
a)

Input signal SAR output at different stages comparator output

1010 1000 1

1100 0

1010 1

1011 0

1010

b)

Input signal SAR output at different stages comparator output

1010 0001 0

0010 1

0011 0

1010 1

c)

Input signal SAR output at different stages comparator output

1010 1111 0

1011 0

1001 1

1010 1
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: The given circuit is a successive approximation register and it finds the required
value of each bit trial and error method. When the conversion start SAR set MSB d 1=1 with
other bits zero. So, trial code is 1000. If Va(1010) is greater than DAC output (1000). Then
MSB is left `1′ and the next lower significant bit is made `1′ and further tested.
3. The Integrating type converters are used in
a) Digital meter
b) Panel meter
c) Monitoring system
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: The Integrating type converters are used in application such as digital meter,
panel meter and monitoring system where the conversion accuracy is critical.

5. Which type of ADC is chosen for noisy environment?

a) Successive approximation ADC
b) Dual slope
c) Charge balancing ADC
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The main advantage of these converters is that it is possible to transmit frequency
even in noisy environment or in isolated form.
6. How to overcome the drawback of the charge balancing ADC?
a) By using precision integrator
b) By using Voltage to frequency converter
c) By using voltage comparator
d) By using dual slope converter
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: Charge balancing ADC depend up on RC product whose value cannot be easily
maintained with temperature and time. This is eliminated using dual slope ADC as it is
independent of R, C and T.
7. Which among the following has long conversion time?
a) Servo converter
b) Dual ramp converter
c) Flash converter
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: The main disadvantage of dual slope ADC is the long conversion time. For
instance, if 2n-T=1/50 is used to reject line pick-up, the conversion time will be 20ms.

8. In which application dual slop converter are used.

a) Thermocouple
b) Digital panel meter
c) Weighting scale
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Dual slope converters are particularly suitable for accurate measurement of slow
varying signals.

9. A dual slope has the following specifications:

16bit counter; Clock rate =4 MHz; Input voltage=12v; Output voltage =-7v and
Capacitor=0.47µF.
If the counters have cycled through 2n counts, determine the value of resistor in the integrator.
a) 60kΩ
b) 50kΩ
c) 120kΩ
d) 100kΩ
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: Time period of the dual slope integrator,
△(t) =t2-t1 =2ncounts/clock rate =216/4Mhz=16.38ms.
For integration,
△Vo=(-1/RC)×V×( t2-t1)
=> RC = -(12v/-7v) ×16.38ms=28.08ms
∴ R= 28.08ms =59744 ≅60kΩ.
10. A 12 bit dual ramp generation has a maximum output voltage of +12v. Compute the
equivalent digital number for the analog signal of +6v.
a) 1000000000
b) 10000000000
c) 1000000000000
d) 100000000000
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: since Va =VR (N/2n) so the digital count N= 2n×(Va/VR)
N= 2 ×(6/12v)
12
= 4096×0.5 =2048.
Binary equivalent for 2048 => 100000000000.