AD7390/AD7391
The AD7390 should be powered directly from the system power
supply. This arrangement, shown in Figure 22, employs an LC
filter and separate power and ground connections to isolate the
analog section from the logic switching transients.
TTL/CMOS
LOGIC
CIRCUITS
FERRITE BEAD:
2 TURNS, FAIR-RITE
#2677006301
100µF
ELECT.
10-22µF
TANT.
+5V
0.1µF
CER.
+5V
RETURN
+5V
POWER SUPPLY
Figure 22. Use Separate Traces to Reduce Power Supply Noise
Whether or not a separate power supply trace is available, how-
ever, generous supply bypassing will reduce supply-line induced
errors. Local supply bypassing consisting of a 10 µF tantalum
electrolytic in parallel with a 0.1 µF ceramic capacitor is recom-
mended in all applications (Figure 23).
+2.7V to +5.5V
*C
8
7
REF VDD
LD
CLK
SDI
CLR
1 AD7390
2
or
3
AD7391
4
GND
* OPTIONAL EXTERNAL
5
REFERENCE BYPASS
0.1 µF ؉ 10 µF
6
VOUT
Figure 23. Recommended Supply Bypassing for the
AD7390/AD7391
INPUT LOGIC LEVELS
All digital inputs are protected with a Zener-type ESD protec-
tion structure (Figure 24) that allows logic input voltages to ex-
ceed the VDD supply voltage. This feature can be useful if the
user is driving one or more of the digital inputs with a 5 V
CMOS logic input-voltage level while operating the AD7390/
AD7391 on a ϩ3 V power supply. If this mode of interface is
used, make sure that the VOL of the 5 V CMOS meets the VIL
input requirement of the AD7390/AD7391 operating at 3 V.
See Figure 10 for a graph for digital logic input threshold versus
operating VDD supply voltage.
VDD
LOGIC
IN
GND
Figure 24. Equivalent Digital Input ESD Protection
In order to minimize power dissipation from input-logic levels
that are near the VIH and VIL logic input voltage specifications, a
Schmitt trigger design was used that minimizes the input-buffer
current consumption compared to traditional CMOS input
stages. Figure 9 shows a plot of incremental input voltage versus
supply current showing that negligible current consumption
takes place when logic levels are in their quiescent state. The
normal crossover current still occurs during logic transitions. A
secondary advantage of this Schmitt trigger, is the prevention of
false triggers that would occur with slow moving logic transi-
tions when a standard CMOS logic interface or opto isolators
are used. The logic inputs SDI, CLK, LD, CLR all contain the
Schmitt trigger circuits.
DIGITAL INTERFACE
The AD7390/AD7391 have a double-buffered serial data input.
The serial-input register is separate from the DAC register,
which allows preloading of a new data value into the serial regis-
ter without disturbing the present DAC values. A functional
block diagram of the digital section is shown in Figure 4, while
Table I contains the truth table for the control logic inputs.
Three pins control the serial data input. Data at the Serial Data
Input (SDI) is clocked into the shift register on the rising edge
of CLK. Data is entered in MSB-first format. Twelve clock
pulses are required to load the 12-bit AD7390 DAC value. If
additional bits are clocked into the shift register, for example
when a microcontroller sends two 8-bit bytes, the MSBs are ig-
nored (Figure 25). The CLK pin is only enabled when Load
(LD) is high. The lower resolution 10-bit AD7391 contains a
10-bit shift register. The AD7391 is also loaded MSB first with
10 bits of data. Again if additional bits are clocked into the shift
register, only the last 10 bits clocked in are used.
The Load pin (LD) controls the flow of data from the shift reg-
ister to the DAC register. After a new value is clocked into the
serial-input register, it will be transferred to the DAC register by
the negative transition of the Load pin (LD).
REV. 0
BYTE 1
BYTE 0
MSB
LSB MSB
LSB
B15 B14 B13 B12 B11 B10 B9
B8
B7
B6
B5
B4
B3
B2
B1
B0
X
X
X
X
D11 D!0 D9
D8
D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
X
X
X
X
X
X
D9
D8
D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
D11_D0: 12-BIT AD7390 DAC VALUE; D9_D0 10-BIT AD7391 DAC VALUE
X = DON’T CARE
THE MSB OF BYTE 1 IS THE FIRST BIT THAT IS LOADED INTO THE DAC
Figure 25. Typical AD7390-Microprocessor Serial Data Input Forms
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