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In an N bit flash ADC, the analog voltage is fed simultaneously to
comparators. The output of the comparators is then encoded to a binary format using digital circuits. Assume that the analog voltage source
(whose output is being converted to digital format) has a source resistance of 75 Ω as shown in the circuit diagram below and the input capacitance of each comparator is 8pF. The output must settle to an accuracy of 1/2 LSB even for a full scale input change for proper conversion. Assume that the time taken by the thermometer to binary encoder is negligible.
If the flash ADC has 8 bit resolution, which one of the following alternatives is closest to the maximum sampling rate?

1 mega-samples per second
6 mega-samples per second
64 mega-samples per second
256 mega-samples per second
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