AD9753
AD9753
IOUTA
IOUTB
COPT
RFB
200â€
200â€
VOUT = IOUTFS Ø‹ RFB
Figure 24. Unipolar Buffered Voltage Output
POWER AND GROUNDING CONSIDERATIONS, POWER
SUPPLY REJECTION
Many applications seek high speed and high performance under
less than ideal operating conditions. In these applications, the
implementation and construction of the printed circuit board is
as important as the circuit design. Proper RF techniques must
be used for device selection, placement, and routing, as well as
power supply bypassing and grounding, to ensure optimum per-
formance. Figures 34 to 41 illustrate the recommended printed
circuit board ground, power and signal plane layouts which are
implemented on the AD9753 evaluation board.
One factor that can measurably affect system performance is
the ability of the DAC output to reject dc variations or ac
noise superimposed on the analog or digital dc power distri-
bution. This is referred to as the Power Supply Rejection
Ratio. For dc variations of the power supply, the resulting
performance of the DAC directly corresponds to a gain error
associated with the DAC’s full-scale current, IOUTFS. AC
noise on the dc supplies is common in applications where the
power distribution is generated by a switching power supply.
Typically, switching power supply noise will occur over the
spectrum from tens of kHz to several MHz. The PSRR vs.
frequency of the AD9753 AVDD supply over this frequency
range is shown in Figure 25.
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Figure 25. Power Supply Rejection Ratio
Note that the units in Figure 25 are given in units of (amps out/
volts in). Noise on the analog power supply has the effect of
modulating the internal switches, and therefore the output
current. The voltage noise on AVDD will thus be added in a
nonlinear manner to the desired IOUT. Due to the relative differ-
ent size of these switches, PSRR is very code-dependent. This
can produce a mixing effect that can modulate low frequency
power supply noise to higher frequencies. Worst-case PSRR
for either one of the differential DAC outputs will occur when
the full-scale current is directed toward that output. As a result,
the PSRR measurement in Figure 25 represents a worst-case
condition in which the digital inputs remain static and the full-
scale output current of 20 mA is directed to the DAC output
being measured.
An example serves to illustrate the effect of supply noise on the
analog supply. Suppose a switching regulator with a switching
frequency of 250 kHz produces 10 mV rms of noise and, for
simplicity sake (i.e., ignore harmonics), all of this noise is con-
centrated at 250 kHz. To calculate how much of this undesired
noise will appear as current noise superimposed on the DAC’s
full-scale current, IOUTFS, one must determine the PSRR in dB
using Figure 25 at 250 kHz. To calculate the PSRR for a given
RLOAD, such that the units of PSRR are converted from A/V to
V/V, adjust the curve in Figure 25 by the scaling factor 20 × Log
(RLOAD ). For instance, if RLOAD is 50 Ω, the PSRR is reduced
by 34 dB (i.e., PSRR of the DAC at 250 kHz, which is 85 dB in
Figure 25, becomes 51 dB VOUT/VIN).
Proper grounding and decoupling should be a primary objective
in any high-speed, high-resolution system. The AD9753 features
separate analog and digital supply and ground pins to optimize
the management of analog and digital ground currents in a sys-
tem. In general, AVDD, the analog supply, should be decoupled
to ACOM, the analog common, as close to the chip as physi-
cally possible. Similarly, DVDD, the digital supply, should be
decoupled to DCOM as close to the chip as physically possible.
For those applications that require a single 3.3 V supply for both
the analog and digital supplies, a clean analog supply may be
generated using the circuit shown in Figure 26. The circuit
consists of a differential LC filter with separate power supply
and return lines. Lower noise can be attained by using low ESR
type electrolytic and tantalum capacitors.
TTL/CMOS
LOGIC
CIRCUITS
FERRITE
BEADS
100â®F
ELECT.
10-22â®F
TANT.
0.1â®F
CER.
AVDD
ACOM
3.3V
POWER SUPPLY
Figure 26. Differential LC Filter for a Single 3.3 V Application
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