SBASA14 May 2020 PCMD3180
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For applications that require an even higher SNR than that supported for each channel, the device digital summing mode can be used. In this mode, the digital record data are summed up across the channel with an equal weightage factor, which helps in reducing the effective record noise. Table 17 lists the configuration settings available for channel summing mode.
P0_R107_D[3:2] : CH_SUM[2:0] | CHANNEL SUMMING MODE FOR INPUT CHANNELS | SNR AND DYNAMIC RANGE BOOST |
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00 (Default) | Channel summing mode is disabled | Not applicable |
01 | Output channel 1 = (input channel 1 + input channel 2) / 2 | 3-dB boost in SNR and dynamic range |
Output channel 2 = (input channel 1 + input channel 2) / 2 | ||
Output channel 3 = (input channel 3 + input channel 4) / 2 | 3-dB boost in SNR and dynamic range | |
Output channel 4 = (input channel 3 + input channel 4) / 2 | ||
10 | Output channel 1 = (input channel 1 + input channel 2 + input channel 3 + input channel 4) / 4 | 6-dB boost in SNR and dynamic range |
Output channel 2 = (input channel 1 + input channel 2 + input channel 3 + input channel 4) / 4 | ||
Output channel 3 = (input channel 1 + input channel 2 + input channel 3 + input channel 4) / 4 | ||
Output channel 4 = (input channel 1 + input channel 2 + input channel 3 + input channel 4) / 4 | ||
11 | Reserved (do not use this setting) | Not applicable |
The device additionally supports a fully programmable mixer feature that can mix the various input channels with their custom programmable scale factor to generate the final output channels. The programmable mixer feature is available only if CH_SUM[2:0] is set to 2'b00. The mixer function is only supported for input channel 1 to channel 4. Figure 34 shows a block diagram that describes the mixer 1 operation to generate output channel 1. The programmable coefficients for the mixer operation are located in the Programmable Coefficient Registers: Page = 0x04 section. All mixer coefficients are 32-bit, two’s complement numbers using a 1.31 number format. The value of 0x7FFFFFFF is equivalent to +1 (0-dB gain), the value 0x00000000 is equivalent to mute (zero data), and any values in between set the mixer attenuation computed using Equation 3. If the MSB is set to '1' then the attenuation remains the same but the signal phase is inverted.
A similar mixer operation is performed by mixer 2, mixer 3, and mixer 4 to generate output channel 2, channel 3, and channel 4, respectively.