SBASAK4B March 2023 – April 2024 ADS127L21
PRODUCTION DATA
Input signals occurring near the modulator sampling rate (fMOD = fCLK / 2) fold back (or alias) to the pass band, resulting in data errors. When aliased, the frequency errors cannot be removed by post processing. An analog antialias filter at the ADC inputs removes out-of-band frequencies from the input signal before being aliased by the ADC. The required order of the antialias filter is dependent on the selected OSR and the target value of signal attenuation at fMOD. A large value of OSR means more frequency range between the fDATA Nyquist frequency and fMOD for the filter to provide the desired attenuation. For example, for OSR = 128, more than two decades of frequency separates fDATA and fMOD. With a corner frequency = fDATA, a third-order, 60dB per decade filter provides a 120dB alias rejection at fMOD.