SLAS528B August 2017 – January 2018 DAC5672A
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A typical application for the DAC5672A is as dual or single carrier transmitter. The DAC is provided with some input digital baseband signal and it outputs an analog carrier. A typical configuration is described below.
The requirements for this design were to generate a single WCDMA signal at an intermediate frequency of 30.72 MHz. The ACLR needs to be better than 72 dBc.
The single carrier signal with an intermediate frequency of 30.72 MHz must be created in the digital processor at a sample rate of 122.88 Msps for DAC. These 14 bit samples are placed on the 14b CMOS input port of the DAC.
A CMOS DAC clock must be generated from a clock source at 122.88 MHz. This must be provided to the CLK pin of the DAC.
The IOUTA and IOUTB differential connections must be connected to a transformer to provide a single ended output. A typical 1:1 impedance transformer is used on the device EVM. The DAC5672A EVM provides a good reference for this design example.
This spectrum analyzer plot shows the ACLR for the transformer output single carrier signal with intermediate frequency of 30.72 MHz. The results meet the system requirements for a minimum of 72 dBc ACLR.