SBASAK4B March   2023  – April 2024 ADS127L21

PRODUCTION DATA  

  1.   1
  2. 1 Features
  3. 2 Applications
  4. 3 Description
  5. 4 Pin Configuration and Functions
  6. 5 Specifications
    1. 5.1  Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 5.2  ESD Ratings
    3. 5.3  Recommended Operating Conditions
    4. 5.4  Thermal Information
    5. 5.5  Electrical Characteristics
    6. 5.6  Timing Requirements (1.65 V ≤ IOVDD ≤ 2 V)
    7. 5.7  Switching Characteristics (1.65 V ≤ IOVDD ≤ 2 V)
    8. 5.8  Timing Requirements (2 V < IOVDD ≤ 5.5 V)
    9. 5.9  Switching Characteristics (2 V < IOVDD ≤ 5.5 V)
    10. 5.10 Timing Diagrams
    11. 5.11 Typical Characteristics
  7. 6 Parameter Measurement Information
    1. 6.1  Offset Error Measurement
    2. 6.2  Offset Drift Measurement
    3. 6.3  Gain Error Measurement
    4. 6.4  Gain Drift Measurement
    5. 6.5  NMRR Measurement
    6. 6.6  CMRR Measurement
    7. 6.7  PSRR Measurement
    8. 6.8  SNR Measurement
    9. 6.9  INL Error Measurement
    10. 6.10 THD Measurement
    11. 6.11 IMD Measurement
    12. 6.12 SFDR Measurement
    13. 6.13 Noise Performance
  8. 7 Detailed Description
    1. 7.1 Overview
    2. 7.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 7.3 Feature Description
      1. 7.3.1 Analog Input (AINP, AINN)
        1. 7.3.1.1 Input Range
      2. 7.3.2 Reference Voltage (REFP, REFN)
        1. 7.3.2.1 Reference Voltage Range
      3. 7.3.3 Clock Operation
        1. 7.3.3.1 Internal Oscillator
        2. 7.3.3.2 External Clock
      4. 7.3.4 Modulator
      5. 7.3.5 Digital Filter
        1. 7.3.5.1 Wideband Filter
          1. 7.3.5.1.1 Wideband Filter Options
          2. 7.3.5.1.2 Sinc5 Filter Stage
          3. 7.3.5.1.3 FIR1 Filter Stage
          4. 7.3.5.1.4 FIR2 Filter Stage
          5. 7.3.5.1.5 FIR3 Filter Stage
          6. 7.3.5.1.6 FIR3 Default Coefficients
          7. 7.3.5.1.7 IIR Filter Stage
            1. 7.3.5.1.7.1 IIR Filter Stability
        2. 7.3.5.2 Low-Latency Filter (Sinc)
          1. 7.3.5.2.1 Sinc3 and Sinc4 Filters
          2. 7.3.5.2.2 Sinc3 + Sinc1 and Sinc4 + Sinc1 Cascade Filter
      6. 7.3.6 Power Supplies
        1. 7.3.6.1 AVDD1 and AVSS
        2. 7.3.6.2 AVDD2
        3. 7.3.6.3 IOVDD
        4. 7.3.6.4 Power-On Reset (POR)
        5. 7.3.6.5 CAPA and CAPD
      7. 7.3.7 VCM Output Voltage
    4. 7.4 Device Functional Modes
      1. 7.4.1 Speed Modes
      2. 7.4.2 Idle Mode
      3. 7.4.3 Standby Mode
      4. 7.4.4 Power-Down Mode
      5. 7.4.5 Reset
        1. 7.4.5.1 RESET Pin
        2. 7.4.5.2 Reset by SPI Register Write
        3. 7.4.5.3 Reset by SPI Input Pattern
      6. 7.4.6 Synchronization
        1. 7.4.6.1 Synchronized Control Mode
        2. 7.4.6.2 Start/Stop Control Mode
        3. 7.4.6.3 One-Shot Control Mode
      7. 7.4.7 Conversion-Start Delay Time
      8. 7.4.8 Calibration
        1. 7.4.8.1 OFFSET2, OFFSET1, OFFSET0 Calibration Registers (Addresses 0Ch, 0Dh, 0Eh)
        2. 7.4.8.2 GAIN2, GAIN1, GAIN0 Calibration Registers (Addresses 0Fh, 10h, 11h)
        3. 7.4.8.3 Calibration Procedure
    5. 7.5 Programming
      1. 7.5.1 Serial Interface (SPI)
        1. 7.5.1.1  Chip Select (CS)
        2. 7.5.1.2  Serial Clock (SCLK)
        3. 7.5.1.3  Serial Data Input (SDI)
        4. 7.5.1.4  Serial Data Output/Data Ready (SDO/DRDY)
        5. 7.5.1.5  SPI Frame
        6. 7.5.1.6  Full-Duplex Operation
        7. 7.5.1.7  Device Commands
          1. 7.5.1.7.1 No-Operation
          2. 7.5.1.7.2 Read Register Command
          3. 7.5.1.7.3 Write Register Command
        8. 7.5.1.8  Read Conversion Data
          1. 7.5.1.8.1 Conversion Data
          2. 7.5.1.8.2 Data Ready
            1. 7.5.1.8.2.1 DRDY
            2. 7.5.1.8.2.2 SDO/DRDY
            3. 7.5.1.8.2.3 DRDY Bit
            4. 7.5.1.8.2.4 Clock Counting
          3. 7.5.1.8.3 STATUS Byte
        9. 7.5.1.9  Daisy-Chain Operation
        10. 7.5.1.10 3-Wire SPI Mode
          1. 7.5.1.10.1 3-Wire SPI Mode Frame Reset
        11. 7.5.1.11 SPI CRC
      2. 7.5.2 Register Memory CRC
        1. 7.5.2.1 Main Program Memory CRC
        2. 7.5.2.2 FIR Filter Coefficient CRC
        3. 7.5.2.3 IIR Filter Coefficient CRC
  9. 8 Register Map
  10. 9 Application and Implementation
    1. 9.1 Application Information
      1. 9.1.1 SPI Operation
      2. 9.1.2 Input Driver
      3. 9.1.3 Antialias Filter
      4. 9.1.4 Reference Voltage
      5. 9.1.5 Simultaneous-Sampling Systems
    2. 9.2 Typical Applications
      1. 9.2.1 A-Weighting Filter Design
        1. 9.2.1.1 Design Requirements
        2. 9.2.1.2 Detailed Design Procedure
        3. 9.2.1.3 Application Curve
      2. 9.2.2 PGA855 Programmable Gain Amplifier
        1. 9.2.2.1 Design Requirements
        2. 9.2.2.2 Detailed Design Procedure
        3. 9.2.2.3 Application Curves
      3. 9.2.3 THS4551 Antialias Filter Design
        1. 9.2.3.1 Design Requirements
        2. 9.2.3.2 Detailed Design Procedure
        3. 9.2.3.3 Application Curves
    3. 9.3 Power Supply Recommendations
    4. 9.4 Layout
      1. 9.4.1 Layout Guidelines
      2. 9.4.2 Layout Example
  11. 10Device and Documentation Support
    1. 10.1 Documentation Support
      1. 10.1.1 Related Documentation
    2. 10.2 Receiving Notification of Documentation Updates
    3. 10.3 Support Resources
    4. 10.4 Trademarks
    5. 10.5 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
    6. 10.6 Glossary
  12. 11Revision History
  13. 12Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information

9.2.3.2 Detailed Design Procedure

The antialias filter consists of a passive first-order input filter, an active second-order filter, and a passive first-order output filter. The filter is fourth-order overall, necessitated by the selection of a low value of OSR (32). OSR 32 results in less than two decades of frequency range between the Nyquist frequency at fDATA and the fMOD frequency. The fourth-order filter provides 90dB rolloff over this frequency range. The filter rolloff at fMOD is the key function of the filter.

The THS4551 amplifier is selected for the active filter stage because of the 135MHz gain-bandwidth product (GBP) and 50ns settling time. The amplifier GBP is sufficient to maintain the filter rolloff at 12.8MHz, even with the dc gain of 15dB. For example, for applications where gain is desired, a 10MHz amplifier has marginal GBP to fully support the required rolloff at the fMOD frequency. The settling time specification of the THS4551 also makes the device a good choice for driving the ADC sampled inputs.

The design of the active filter section begins with an equal-R assumption to reduce the number of determined component values. The dc gain of the filter is R3 / (R1 + R2). Use of 1kΩ resistors are low enough to keep resistor noise and amplifier input current noise from affecting the noise of the ADC.

The 1kΩ input resistor is divided into two 499Ω resistors (R1 and R2) to implement the first-order filter using C1. The first-order filter is decoupled from the second-order active filter, but shares R1 and R2 to determine each filter stage corner frequency. The corner frequency is given by C1 and the Thevenin resistance at the terminals of C1 (RTH = 2 × 250Ω).

The Design Methodology for MFB Filters in ADC Interface Applications application note provides filter design equations used in this example. The design inputs are filter fO and filter Q for the multiple-feedback active filter topology. Given an arbitrary selection of R4, the values of the C3 feedback capacitors and the single 330pF differential capacitor (C2) are determined. R4 is 2 × 499Ω and C3 is 2 × 180pF in this case. The differential capacitor (C4) is not part of the filter design but helps improve filter phase margin. The 5Ω resistors (R5) isolate the amplifier outputs from stray capacitance to further improve filter phase margin.

The final stage RC filter at the ADC inputs serves two purposes. First, the filter provides a fourth pole to the overall filter response, thereby increasing the filter rolloff. The other purpose of the filter is a charge reservoir to filter the capacitor sampled input of the ADC. The charge reservoir reduces the instantaneous charge demand of the amplifier, maintaining low distortion and low gain error that otherwise degrades from incomplete amplifier settling. The input filter values are 2 × 22Ω and 2.2nF. The 22Ω resistors are outside the THS4551 filter loop to isolate the amplifier outputs from the 2.2nF capacitor to maintain phase margin.

Low voltage-coefficient C0G capacitors are used everywhere in the signal path for the low distortion properties. The amplifier gain resistors are 0.1% tolerance to provide best possible THD performance. The ADC VCM output connection to the amplifier VOCM input pin is optional because the same function is provided by the amplifier.

See the THS4551 data sheet for additional examples of active filter designs and application.