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Noise.
Careful considerations must be made to select a low-noise, front-end amplifier in order to prevent any
degradation in SNR performance of the system. As a rule of thumb, to ensure that the noise performance of
the data acquisition system is not limited by the front-end circuit, keep the total noise contribution from the
front-end circuit below 20% of the input-referred noise of the ADC. Noise from the input driver circuit is band-
limited by the low cut-off frequency of the input antialiasing filter, as explained in
where:
•
V
1 / f_AMP_PP
is the peak-to-peak flicker noise,
•
e
n_RMS
is the amplifier broadband noise density in nV/
√
Hz, and
•
N
G
is the noise gain of the front-end circuit, which is equal to 1 in a buffer configuration.
(3)
8.3.10 ADC Transfer Function
The ADS8684 and ADS8688 are a family of multichannel devices that support single-ended, bipolar, and
unipolar input ranges on all input channels. The output of the devices is in straight binary format for both bipolar
and unipolar input ranges. The format for the output codes is the same across all analog channels.
The ideal transfer characteristic for each ADC channel for all input ranges is shown in
. The full-scale
range (FSR) for each input signal is equal to the difference between the positive full-scale (PFS) input voltage
and the negative full-scale (NFS) input voltage. The LSB size is equal to FSR / 2
16
= FSR / 65536 because the
resolution of the ADC is 16 bits. For a reference voltage of V
REF
= 4.096 V, the LSB values corresponding to the
different input ranges are listed in
.
Figure 69. 16-Bit ADC Transfer Function (Straight Binary Format)
Table 4. ADC LSB Values for Different Input Ranges (V
REF
= 4.096 V)
INPUT RANGE
POSITIVE FULL SCALE
NEGATIVE FULL SCALE
FULL-SCALE RANGE
LSB (µV)
±2.5 × V
REF
10.24 V
–10.24 V
20.48 V
312.50
±1.25 × V
REF
5.12 V
–5.12 V
10.24 V
156.25
±0.625 × V
REF
2.56 V
–2.56 V
5.12 V
78.125
0 to 2.5 × V
REF
10.24 V
0 V
10.24 V
156.25
0 to 1.25 × V
REF
5.12 V
0 V
5.12 V
78.125
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