SBASB74 October 2024 ADS127L21B
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An IIR filter designed for stable operation requires the pole radius of the polynomial H(z) denominator to be within the unit circle. That is, the pole radius r must be < 1. However, because of the finite resolution of the ADS127L21B IIR filter, the IIR filter potentially exhibits signal artifacts when the pole radius is close to 1. Artifacts include dead-band effects at zero signal input and rounding noise not contained in the original signal. The artifacts occur when the pole radius is > 0.98. Figure 7-22 shows the unit circle in the z-plane and the IIR filter 0.98 pole radius.
The pole radius of the H(z) prototype filter design is computing by √a2. In this computation, a2 is the coefficient of the 1 + a1z–1 + a2z–2 polynomial in the H(z) denominator. The pole radius is reduced by decreasing the ratio of the data rate to the filter frequency. Evaluate the suitability of the prototype IIR filter design by testing the filter in the ADC.