Serial or Parallel ADC?

[Jack// ani]

Hi all,

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?

Thanks

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Jack// ani wrote:

Hi all,

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?

Slower ADCs use the serial interface while faster
ones are connected in parallel.

Rene
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[Luhan Monat]

Jack// ani wrote:

Hi all,

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?

Thanks

Its usually better to use a PIC with the ADC built in.

--
Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
"The future is not what it used to be..."
http://members.cox.net/berniekm

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Luhan Monat wrote:

Jack// ani wrote:

Hi all,

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?

Thanks


Its usually better to use a PIC with the ADC built in.

Provided the internal ADC is up to the required
specifications. Though not that bad, it is limited.

Rene
--
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& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[hamilton]

You better check your ADCs, serial, SPI type are faster that parallel
types. Those used in DSP applications are all serial(SPI) type.



Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Jack// ani wrote:

Hi all,

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?


Slower ADCs use the serial interface while faster
ones are connected in parallel.

Rene

 

[Mac]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:39:19 -0700, hamilton wrote:
[top posting fixed]

Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Jack// ani wrote:

Hi all,

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?


Slower ADCs use the serial interface while faster ones are connected in
parallel.

Rene

You better check your ADCs, serial, SPI type are faster that parallel
types. Those used in DSP applications are all serial(SPI) type.

If SPI can keep up with the ADC output, then the ADC is not fast, in my
book.

I don't know what problem domain you are used to working in, but all the
fast ADC's I am familiar with are parallel. It wouldn't be all that
practical, in my opinion, to do a 14-bit 100 MHz ADC as a serial part, and
of course it would be impossible for SPI.

--Mac

 

[Wouter van Ooijen (www.vo]

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?

If one were better than the other on all aspects only one type would
be sold.

Note that there are aslo lots of serial variations (SPI, ICC, I2C,
1-wire, etc)


Wouter van Ooijen

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Webshop for PICs and other electronics
http://www.voti.nl/hvu
Teacher electronics and informatics

 

[Chopper]

Hi

I have used a 11 I/P 8 bit serial ADC on a PIC 16F84 quite successfully.
Serial uses less uC pins so you can the PIC for other things. I had mine
driving a LCD & RS232 chip as well. The programming is slightly more
difficult though as you have to program & count address pulses, clock pulses
& read out the serial data. Parallel stuff works in bytes (or nybbles) which
are usually easier to program

Hope this helps & not too late,

Chopper

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Hi all,

I want to interface my PIC uC with external ADC, I want to know which
is more easy and better a serial ADC or a parallel ADC?

Thanks