2.0 Applications Information
2.1 TYPICAL APPLICATION CIRCUIT
A typical application is shown in Figure 8. The split analog and
digital supply pins are both powered, in this example, by the
National LP2950 low-dropout voltage regulator. The analog
supply is bypassed with a capacitor network located close to
the ADC088S052. The digital supply is separated from the
analog supply by an isolation resistor and bypassed with ad-
ditional capacitors. The ADC088S052 uses the analog supply
(VA) as its reference voltage, so it is very important that VA be
kept as clean as possible. Due to the low power requirements
of the ADC088S052, it is also possible to use a precision ref-
erence as a power supply.
To minimize the error caused by the changing input capaci-
tance of the ADC088S052, a capacitor is connected from
each input pin to ground. The capacitor, which is much larger
than the input capacitance of the ADC088S052 when in track
mode, provides the current to quickly charge the sampling
capacitor of the ADC088S052. An isolation resistor is added
to isolate the load capacitance from the input source.
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FIGURE 8. Typical Application Circuit
2.2 POWER SUPPLY CONSIDERATIONS
There are three major power supply concerns with this prod-
uct: power supply sequencing, power management, and the
effect of digital supply noise on the analog supply.
2.2.1 Power Supply Sequence
The ADC088S052 is a dual-supply device. The two supply
pins share ESD resources, so care must be exercised to en-
sure that the power is applied in the correct sequence. To
avoid turning on the ESD diodes, the digital supply (VD) can-
not exceed the analog supply (VA) by more than 300 mV, not
even on a transient basis. Therefore, VA must ramp up before
or concurrently with VD.
2.2.2 Power Management
The ADC088S052 is fully powered-up whenever CS is low
and fully powered-down whenever CS is high, with one ex-
ception. If operating in continuous conversion mode, the AD-
C088S052 automatically enters power-down mode between
SCLK's 16th falling edge of a conversion and the SCLK's 1st
falling edge of the subsequent conversion (see Figure 1).
In continuous conversion mode, the ADC088S052 can per-
form multiple conversions back to back. Each conversion
requires 16 SCLK cycles and the ADC088S052 will perform
conversions continuously as long as CS is held low. Contin-
uous mode offers maximum throughput.
In burst mode, the user may trade off throughput for power
consumption by performing fewer conversions per unit time.
This means spending more time in power-down mode and
less time in normal mode. By utilizing this technique, the user
can achieve very low sample rates while still utilizing an SCLK
frequency within the electrical specifications. The Power Con-
sumption vs. SCLK curve in the Typical Performance Curves
section shows the typical power consumption of the AD-
C088S022 in the continuous conversion mode. Burst mode
power is calculated as shown below, where PC is average
power consumption, (tN) is the time in the normal (continuous
conversion) mode, tS is the time in shut down mode, PN is the
power consumption in the normal mode and PS is the power
consumption in the shutdown mode.
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FIGURE 9. Power Consumption Equation
2.2.3 Power Supply Noise Considerations
The charging of any output load capacitance requires current
from the digital supply, VD. The current pulses required from
the supply to charge the output capacitance will cause voltage
variations on the digital supply. If these variations are large
enough, they could degrade SNR and SINAD performance of
the ADC. Furthermore, if the analog and digital supplies are
tied directly together, the noise in the on-chip digital supply
will be coupled directly into the analog supply, causing greater
performance degradation than would noise on the digital sup-
ply alone. Similarly, discharging the output capacitance when
the digital output goes from a logic high to a logic low will dump
current into the die substrate. Load discharge currents will
cause "ground bounce" noise in the substrate that will de-
grade noise performance if that current is large enough. The
larger the output capacitance, the more current flows through
the die substrate and the greater the noise coupled into the
analog channel.
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