SNAS333E August 2005 – December 2015 ADC128S052 , ADC128S052-Q1
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There are three major power supply concerns with this product: power supply sequencing, power management, and the effect of digital supply noise on the analog supply.
The ADC128S052 is a dual-supply device. The two supply pins share ESD resources, so exercise care to ensure that the power is applied in the correct sequence. To avoid turning on the ESD diodes, the digital supply (VD) cannot 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.
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 causes 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 on the digital supply is coupled directly into the analog supply, causing greater performance degradation than would noise on the digital supply alone. Similarly, discharging the output capacitance when the digital output goes from a logic high to a logic low dumps current into the die substrate, which is resistive. Load discharge currents causes ground bounce noise in the substrate that degrades 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.
The first solution for keeping digital noise out of the analog supply is to decouple the analog and digital supplies from each other or use separate supplies for them. To keep noise out of the digital supply, keep the output load capacitance as small as practical. If the load capacitance is greater than 50 pF, use a 100-Ω series resistor at the ADC output, located as close to the ADC output pin as practical. This limits the charge and discharge current of the output capacitance and improves noise performance. Because the series resistor and the load capacitor form a low frequency pole, verify signal integrity once the series resistor has been added.