PE4305
Product Specification
Figure 15. Evaluation Board Layout
Evaluation Kit
The Digital Attenuator Evaluation Kit board was
designed to ease customer evaluation of the
PE4305 DSA.
J9 is used in conjunction with the supplied DC
cable to supply VDD, GND, and –VDD. If use of
the internal negative voltage generator is desired,
then connect –VDD (black banana plug) to
ground. If an external –VDD is desired, then apply
-3V.
J1 should be connected to the LPT1 port of a PC
with the supplied control cable. The evaluation
software is written to operate the DSA in serial
mode, so switch 7 (P/S) on the DIP switch SW1
should be ON with all other switches off. Using the
software, enable or disable each attenuation
setting to the desired combined attenuation. The
software automatically programs the DSA each
time an attenuation state is enabled or disabled.
To evaluate the Power Up options, first disconnect
the control cable from the evaluation board. The
control cable must be removed to prevent the PC
port from biasing the control pins.
During power up with P/S=1 high and LE=0 or P/
S=0 low and LE=1, the default power-up signal
attenuation is set to the value present on the five
control bits on the five parallel data inputs (C0.5 to
C8). This allows any one of the 32 attenuation
settings to be specified as the power-up state.
Figure 16. Evaluation Board Schematic
C0.5 C1
C2 C4
J4
1
2
3
4
5
15
14
13
12
11
C8
PS
N/C
C8
J5
Z=50 Ohm
Z=50 Ohm
1
1
During power up with P/S=0 high and LE=0, the
control bits are automatically set to one of two
possible values presented through the PUP
interface. These two values are selected by the
power-up control bit, PUP2, as shown in Table 6.
RFin
RFout
PS
U1
QFN4X4
DATA
DATA
CLK
LE
SMA
10 kohm
CLK
SMA
VNEG
GND
LE
Pins 1 and 7 are open and may be connected to
any bias.
PUP2
VCC
Resistor on Pin 3
100 pF
A 10 kꢀ resistor on the input to pin 3 (Figure 16)
will eliminate package resonance between the RF
input pin and the digital input. Specified
Note: Resistor on pin 3 is required and should be placed as close to
the part as possible to avoid package resonance and meet error
specifications over frequency.
attenuation error versus frequency performance is
dependent upon this condition.
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