
Appendix A
Specifications
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T/H Characteristics
Acquisition time ..................................... 7
µ
s typ
Hold mode settling time ......................... 3
µ
s typ
Droop rate .............................................. 30 mV/s typ, 100 mV/s max
Interchannel skew .................................. 200 ns typ
Intermodule skew ................................... 250 ns typ
Transfer Characteristics
Offset error ............................................. 150
µ
V (G
≤
20)
3 mV (G <20)
Gain error ............................................... ±0.1%
Non-linearity .......................................... Better than 0.02% of FSR
DNL ....................................................... ±0.5 LSB typ
±1 LSB max
No missing codes ................................... 16 bits, guaranteed
Calibration
Recommended warm-up time ................ 15 minutes
External calibration interval................... 1 year
Onboard calibration reference
Level ............................................... 5.000 V ±1 mV (actual value
stored in EEPROM)
Temperature coefficient .................. ±5 ppm/°C
Long-term stability ......................... 15 ppm/
Pre-calibration errors
1
Pre-calibration gain error ................ ±18,900 ppm max
Signal conditioning
component only............................... ±1% max
1
The pre-calibration errors apply only for users doing register-level programming. NI-DAQmx users do not see the
pre-calibration errors.
1,000 h
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