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Amplifier setup in DEWESoft
3.1.3 Analog to digital conversion
The DEWE-ORION-0824-20x uses 8 delta-sigma A/D converters. If you sample with a data rate of 102.4
kS/s, the ADC actually samples the input signal with 13.1072 MS/s (multiply the data rate with 128) and
produces 1-bit samples which are applied to the digital filter. The filter expands the data to 24-bits and rejects
signal parts greater than 51.2 kHz (Nyquist frequency). It also re-samples the data to the more conventional
rate of 102.4 kS/s.
A 1-bit quantizer introduces many quantization errors to the signal. The 1-bit, 13.1072 MS/s from the ADC
carry all information to produce 24-bit samples at 102.4 kS/s. The delta-sigma ADC converts from high speed
to high resolution by adding much random noise to the signal. In this way the resulting quantization noise is
restricted to frequencies above 100 kHz. This noise is not correlated with the useful signal and is rejected by
the digital filter.
3.1.4 Anti-alias filter
ADCs can only represent signals of a limited bandwidth. The maximum frequency you can represent is the
half of the sampling rate. This maximum frequency is also called Nyquist frequency. The bandwidth between
0 Hz and the Nyquist frequency is called Nyquist bandwidth. Signals exceeding this frequency range can not
be converted correctly by the sampler.
For example, the sample rate is 1000 S/s, the Nyquist frequency is 500 Hz. If the input signal is a 375 Hz
sine wave, the resulting samples represent a 375 Hz sine wave. If a 625 Hz sine wave is sampled, the
resulting samples represent a 375 Hz sine wave too. This happens because signals exceeds the Nyquist
frequency (500 Hz). The represented frequency of the sine wave is the absolute value of the difference
between the input frequency and the closest integer multiple of the sampling rate (in this case 1000 Hz).
Some examples:
Input sine wave 2280 Hz, sampling frequency 1000 Hz: 2280 - 2 * 1000 = 280 Hz
Input sine wave 3890 Hz, sampling frequency 1000 Hz: 4 * 1000 - 3890 = 110 Hz
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