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ADC78H90
SNAS227D –NOVEMBER 2003–REVISED MARCH 2013 www.ti.com
Power Supply Noise Considerations
The charging of any output load capacitance requires current from the digital supply, DV
DD
. The current pulses
required from the supply to charge the output capacitance will cause voltage variations on the digital supply. If
these variations are large enough, they could cause 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 will be
coupled directly into the analog supply, causing greater performance degradation than noise on the digital
supply. Furthermore, discharging the output capacitance when the digital output goes from a logic high to a logic
low will dump current into the die substrate, which is resistive. Load discharge currents will cause "ground
bounce" noise in the substrate that will degrade noise performance if that current is large enough. The larger is
the output capacitance, the more current flows through the die substrate and the greater is the noise coupled into
the analog channel, degrading noise performance.
The first solution is to decouple the analog and digital supplies from each other, or use separate supplies for
them, to keep digital noise out of the analog supply. To keep noise out of the digital supply, keep the output load
capacitance as small as practical. If the load capacitance is greater than 25 pF, use a 100 Ω series resistor at
the ADC output, located as close to the ADC output pin as practical. This will limit the charge and discharge
current of the output capacitance and improve noise performance.
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