Determine the clock frequency needed to form an 8-bit, single-slope converter, if the analog signal bandwidth is 20 kHz.
Since the sampling rate required is 40 kHz, then the worst-case situation would occur for a full-scale input, in which event the integrator output would have to climb to its maximum value and the counter would increment 2^{N} times during the corresponding 25 μs period between samples. Therefore, the clock frequency would need to be 2^{N} times faster than the sampling rate or 10.24 MHz.