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ADCS7476, ADCS7477, ADCS7478

SNAS192G – APRIL 2003 – REVISED MAY 2016

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11 Device and Documentation Support

11.1 Device Support

11.1.1 Device Nomenclature

APERTURE DELAY is the variation in aperture delay from sample to sample. Aperture jitter manifests itself as

noise in the output.

APERTURE JITTER (APERTURE UNCERTAINTY) is the variation in aperture delay from sample to sample.

Aperture jitter manifests itself as noise in the output.

DIFFERENTIAL NON-LINEARITY (DNL) is the measure of the maximum deviation from the ideal step size of 1

LSB.

DUTY CYCLE is the ratio of the time that a repetitive digital waveform is high to the total time of one period. The

specification here refers to the SCLK.

EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF BITS (ENOB, or EFFECTIVE BITS) is another method of specifying Signal-to-Noise

and Distortion or SINAD. ENOB is defined as (SINAD - 1.76) / 6.02 and says that the converter is

equivalent to a perfect ADC of this (ENOB) number of bits.

FULL POWER BANDWIDTH is a measure of the frequency at which the reconstructed output fundamental

drops 3 dB below its low frequency value for a full scale input.

INTEGRAL NON-LINEARITY (INL) is a measure of the deviation of each individual code from a line drawn from

negative full scale (½ LSB below the first code transition) through positive full scale (½ LSB above

the last code transition). The deviation of any given code from this straight line is measured from

the center of that code value.

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION (IMD) is the creation of additional spectral components as a result of two

sinusoidal frequencies being applied to the ADC input at the same time. It is defined as the ratio of

the power in the either the two second order or all four third order intermodulation products to the

sum of the power in both of the original frequencies. IMD is usually expressed in dBFS.

MISSING CODES are those output codes that never appear at the ADC outputs. ADCS747x is ensured not to

have any missing codes.

OFFSET ERROR is the deviation of the first code transition (000...000) to (000...001) from the ideal (that is,

GND + 0.5 LSB for the ADCS7476 and ADCS7477, and GND + 1 LSB for the ADCS7478).

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR) is the ratio, expressed in dB, of the rms value of the input signal to the rms

value of the sum of all other spectral components below one-half the sampling frequency, not

including harmonics or DC.

SIGNAL TO NOISE PLUS DISTORTION (S/N+D or SINAD) Is the ratio, expressed in dB, of the rms value of

the input signal to the rms value of all of the other spectral components below half the clock

frequency, including harmonics but excluding DC.

SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE (SFDR) is the difference, expressed in dB, between the rms values of the

input signal and the peak spurious signal, where a spurious signal is any signal present in the

output spectrum that is not present at the input.

TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD) is the ratio, expressed in dBc, of the rms total of the first five harmonic

levels at the output to the level of the fundamental at the output. THD is calculated as:

where

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