ZHCSK67B June 2017 – August 2019 ADS1287
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Figure 46 shows that the ΔΣ modulator is an inherently-stable, fourth-order, 2 + 2 pipelined structure. The modulator shapes the quantization noise to an area outside of the pass band, where the noise is removed by the digital filter.
The first stage of the modulator converts the analog input voltage into a pulse-code modulated (PCM) stream. When the input voltage to the modulator is equal to the reference voltage (VREF), the density of the PCM data stream is at the highest 1 density. When the input voltage is zero, the PCM 1 density is 50%. At the FS and –FS inputs, the 1 density of the PCM streams is approximately 90% and 10%, respectively.
The modulator second stage produces a digital data stream designed to cancel the quantization noise of the first stage. The data streams of the two stages are mathematically combined to reduce overall quantization noise. The combined data are the input to the digital filter block.