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5.3.2

MODULATOR INPUT RANGE AND

SATURATION POINT

For a specified voltage reference value of 2.4V, the

modulators

specified

differential

input

range

±500 mV. The input range is proportional to VREF and

scales according to the VREF voltage. This range is

guaranteeing the stability of the modulator over

amplitude and frequency. Outside of this range, the

modulator is still functional, however its stability is no

longer guaranteed and therefore it is not recommended

to exceed this limit. The saturation point for the

modulator is VREF/3 since the transfer function of the

ADC includes a gain of 3 by default (independent from

the PGA setting. See Section 5.6 “ADC OUTPUT

CODING”).

5.3.3

BOOST MODE

The

Delta-Sigma

modulators

also

include

independent BOOST mode for each channel. If the

corresponding BOOST<1:0> bit is enabled, the power

consumption of the modulator is multiplied by 2 and its

bandwidth is increased to be able to sustain AMCLK

clock frequencies up to 8.192 MHz while keeping the

ADC accuracy. When disabled, the power consumption

is back to normal and the AMCLK clock frequencies

can only reach up to 5 MHz without affecting ADC

accuracy.

5.4

Modulator Output Block

If the user wishes to use the modulator output of the

device the appropriate bits to enable the modulator

output must be set in the configuration register.

When MODOUT<1:0> is enabled, the modulator

output of the corresponding channel is present at the

corresponding MDAT output pin as soon as the

command is placed.

Since the sigma-delta modulators have a 5-level output

given by the state of 4 comparators with thermometer

coding, their outputs can be represented on 4 bits, each

bit giving the state of the corresponding comparator

(See Table 5-2). These bits are present on the MOD

In order to output the comparators result on a separate

pin (MDAT0 and MDAT1), these comparator output bits

have been arranged to be serially output at the AMCLK

rate (See Figure 5-2).

This 1-bit serial bitstream is the same that would be

produced by a 1-bit DAC modulator with a sampling

frequency of AMCLK. The modulator can either be

considered like a 5 level-output at DMCLK rate or 1-bit

output at AMCLK rate. These two representations are

interchangeable. The MDAT outputs can therefore be

used in any application that requires 1-bit modulator

outputs. These applications will often integrate and

filter the 1-bit output with SINC or more complex

decimation filters computed by a MCU or a DSP.

FIGURE 5-2:

MDAT Serial Outputs in

Function of the Modulator Output Code.

Since the reset and shutdown SPI commands are

asynchronous, the MDAT pins are resynchronized with

DMCLK after each time the part goes out of reset and

shutdown.

This means that the first output of MDAT after RESET

is always 0011 after the first DMCLK rising edge.

TABLE 5-2:

DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR

CODING

Comp<3:0>

Code

Modulator

Output Code

MDAT Serial

Stream

1111

0111

0011

0001

-1

0001

0000

-2

0000

DMCLK

MDAT+2

MDAT+1

MDAT+0

MDAT-1

MDAT-2

COMP

AMCLK

<3>

COMP

<2>

COMP

<1>

COMP

<0>

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