Rainbow Electronics ADC12038 - Manual (Page 31)

Application Hints
(Continued)
For pseudo-differential signed operation the biasing circuit
shown in
Figure 10 shows a signal AC coupled to the ADC
This gives a digital output range of b4096 to a4095 With a
2 5V reference as shown 1 LSB is equal to 610 mV Al-
though the ADC is not production tested with a 2 5V refer-
ence linearity error typically will not change more than 0 1
LSB (see the curves in the Typical Electrical Characteristics
Section) With the ADC set to an acquisition time of 10 clock
periods the input biasing resistor needs to be 600X or less
Notice though that the input coupling capacitor needs to be
made fairly large to bring down the high pass corner In-
creasing the acquisition time to 34 clock periods (with a
5 MHz CCLK frequency) would allow the 600X to increase
to 6k which with a 1 mF coupling capacitor would set the
high pass corner at 26 Hz Increasing R to 6k would allow
R
2 to be 2k
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FIGURE 10 Pseudo-Differential Biasing with the Signal Source AC Coupled Directly into the ADC
An alternative method for biasing pseudo-differential opera-
tion is to use the a2 5V from the LM9140 to bias any ampli-
fier circuits driving the ADC as shown in
Figure 11 The
value of the resistor pull-up biasing the LM9140-2 5 will de-
pend upon the current required by the op amp biasing cir-
cuitry
In the circuit of Figure 11 some voltage range is lost since
the amplifier will not be able to swing to a5V and GND
with a single a5V supply Using an adjustable version of the
LM4041 to set the full scale voltage at exactly 2 048V and a
lower grade LM4040D-2 5 to bias up everything to 2 5V as
shown in
Figure 12 will allow the use of all the ADC’s digital
output range of b4096 to a4095 while leaving plenty of
head room for the amplifier
Fully differential operation is shown in Figure 13 One LSB
for this case is equal to (4 1V 4096) e 1 mV
TL H 11354 – 48
FIGURE 11 Alternative Pseudo-Differential Biasing
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