JAJSIN3A February 2020 – February 2021 ADS131M06
PRODUCTION DATA
The analog front-end for current inputs is different from the analog front-end for the voltage inputs. Figure 9-7 shows the analog front-end used for a current channel.
The analog front-end for current consists of burden resistors for the current transformers (RB) and an RC low-pass filter (RFILT and CFILT) that functions as an antialias filter.
Two identical burden resistors in series are used with the common point being connected to GND instead of using one burden resistor for best THD performance. This split-burden resistor configuration ensures that the waveforms fed to the positive and negative terminals of the ADC are 180 degrees out-of-phase with each other, which provides the best THD results with this ADC. The total burden resistance is selected based on the current range used and the turns ratio specification of the CT (this design uses CTs with a turns ratio of 2000). The total value of the effective burden resistor (2RB) for this design is 12.98 Ω.
Equation 12 shows how to calculate the range of differential voltages fed to the current ADC channel for a given maximum current, CT turns ratio, and burden resistor value.
Based on the maximum RMS current of 100 A, a CT turns ratio NCT of 2000, and an effective burden resistor 2RB between AINxP and AINxN of 12.98 Ω for this design, the input signal to the current ADC has a voltage swing of ±918 mV maximum (649 mVRMS) when the maximum current rating of the meter (100 A) is applied. This ±918-mV maximum input voltage is well within the ±1.2-V input range of the device for the selected PGA gain of 1 that is used for the current channels.