For this design example, the requirements include:
- Provide a wideband, 50-Ω input impedance match for a single-ended source centered on ground.
- From the input termination, provide a gain of 5 V/V to the FDA output pins as a differential signal.
- Set the output common-mode operating point using the ADC common-mode output voltage as the VOCM input to the THS4551 FDA.
- Implement a low-overshoot, noise-band-limiting filter between the FDA and the ADC. Use only differential shunt elements in the filter to pass the FDA output common-mode voltage to the ADC with no level shifting.
- Design the filter as a –1-dB insertion loss filter with a low series resistor to limit the common-mode level shift resulting from the ADC input sample-rate-dependent common-mode current.