ZHCSIU4A September 2018 – August 2019 ADS1284
PRODUCTION DATA.
The PGA of the ADS1284 is a low-noise, continuous-time, differential-in and differential-out CMOS amplifier. The gain is set by register bits PGA[2:0], programmable from 1 to 64. The PGA differentially drives the modulator of the ADC through 300-Ω internal resistors. The effect of the internal resistors and the modulator input impedance results in gain error that changes with operating mode (see Electrical Characteristics). A PGA output filter capacitor (10-nF C0G or film dielectric) must be connected to CAPP and CAPN in order to filter modulator sampling glitches. The external capacitor also serves as the antialias filter. The corner frequency of the filter is given in Equation 3:
The PGA incorporates chopper stabilization. As shown in Figure 36, amplifiers A1 and A2 are chopper stabilized to remove the offset, offset drift, and 1/f noise. Chopper stabilization (or chopping) moves the offset and noise to fCLK / 1024 (4 kHz, fCLK = 4.096 MHz ), which is located safely out of the pass-band frequency range. Chopping can be disabled by setting the CHOP bit = 0. When chopping is disabled, the PGA input impedance increases (see Differential Input Impedance parameter in the Electrical Characteristics). As shown in Figure 37, chopper stabilization provides flat noise density, leaving the noise spectrum white. However, if chopper stabilization is disabled, the PGA input noise results in a rising 1/f noise profile. The effect of 1/f noise to the conversion data is most noticeable at high PGA gain setting.
As a result of charges stored on stray capacitance of the input chopping switches, low-level transient currents flow through the inputs when chopper stabilization is enabled. The average value of the transient currents results in an effective input impedance. The effective input impedance depends on the PGA gain, as shown in Table 6. Despite the relatively high input impedance, evaluate applications that use high-impedance sensors or high-impedance termination resistors. In some cases, ADC performance may be improved by disabling chopper stabilization.Table 6 shows the PGA differential input impedance with chopper stabilization enabled.
PGA | DIFFERENTIAL INPUT IMPEDANCE (GΩ) |
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1 | 7 |
2 | 7 |
4 | 4 |
8 | 3 |
16 | 2 |
32 | 1 |
64 | 0.5 |
The PGA provides programmable gains from 1 to 64. Table 7 shows the register bit setting for the PGA and resulting full-scale differential range.
PGA[2:0] | GAIN | DIFFERENTIAL INPUT RANGE (V)(1) |
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000 | 1 | ±2.5 |
001 | 2 | ±1.25 |
010 | 4 | ±0.625 |
011 | 8 | ±0.312 |
100 | 16 | ±0.156 |
101 | 32 | ±0.078 |
110 | 64 | ±0.039 |
The specified range of the PGA output is shown in Equation 4:
For best performance, maintain PGA output levels (signal plus common mode voltage) within these limits.