Obtaining optimum performance from a high-resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) depends upon many factors. Power supply decoupling and good grounding practices are essential to maintaining accuracy in ADCs. Poor grounding technique may manifest itself in many different ways such as excessive noise, or signal crosstalk in the system. A more difficult problem to track down is that of poor differential linearity error (DLE) in the converter. This is difficult because poor DLE may result from settling time problems inside the ADC, from the circuitry driving the ADC having too high an output impedance at the converter’s operating frequency, from poor grounding techniques or other sources.