The Plan B Toolkit: Debug a high-speed ADC using decimation [Shop Talk: What You Didn’t Learn in School]

Debugging high-speed ADCs is a unique challenge because of the enormous rate at which they spew data. Modern devices can fling out 20 GB of data per second. That’s like 250 DVDs worth of information per minute! How’re you going to deal with that? You’re not. That’s the secret.