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Except that all of those references are all at least 10 years more recent than the invention of the concept, & none of them are actual academic papers. (Hint: they're all 'backronyms': )

Googling from some of the same placess: CMU:

Gives 57 results, dating back as far as 1980, including actual published papers, course material & other formal references.

Berkely:

Gives 141 results similar types to those from CMU.

MIT:

106 results, as above.

Iowa U:

11 results. (Not exactly a CompSci pioneer, so not very surprising.)

Sun:

123 results. 
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Indeed.

ADCs & DACs are sold as modules for exactly this reason.

Mate, that's electronics for you. If you need those sorts of features, you need to either pay someone else the big bucks to make you one, or study long enough to figure out how to make one yourself. (At which time you'll discover why the first option is so expensive.)

I'm tempted to make a joke here about wanting a pony. ;^)

16 bit ADCs (& even DACs) are expensive & difficult to implement at the best of times. Trying to put them on a microcontroller would be just about impossible to do at a sane price. (Plus it'd require multiple, ultra-low-noise, power lines & complex shielding.) 
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Just to make my point 100% crystal clear, the above should've said: "Googling for 'reduced instruction set COMPUTER' from the same sites:" (As is obvious from the URLs themselves.)

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