Data processing based on wave propagation

An electronic system architecture will be proposed to process data based on wave propagation. An analog input value can be converted into a digital thermometer code by defining wave propagation as logic ‘1’ and propagation failure as a logic ‘0’. This principle of data processing is the basic step in flash analog-to-digital conversion. The performance of the proposed flash analog-to-digital converter based on wave propagation will be discussed by means of simulations.