AD5162
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LAYOUT AND POWER SUPPLY BYPASSING
It is good practice to employ compact, minimum lead length
layout design. The leads to the inputs should be as direct as
possible with a minimum conductor length. Ground paths
should have low resistance and low inductance.
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Similarly, it is also good practice to bypass the power supplies
with quality capacitors for optimum stability. Supply leads to the
device should be bypassed with disc or chip ceramic capacitors
of 0.01 µF to 0.1 µF. Low ESR 1 µF to 10 µF tantalum or electro-
lytic capacitors should also be applied at the supplies to
minimize any transient disturbance and low frequency ripple
(see Figure 39). Note that the digital ground should also be
joined remotely to the analog ground at one point to minimize
the ground bounce.
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Figure 40. Battery Operating Life Depletion
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EVALUATION BOARD
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AD5162
An evaluation board, along with all necessary software, is
available to program the AD5162 from any PC running
Windows 98/2000/XP. The graphical user interface, as shown in
Figure 41, is straightforward and easy to use. More detailed
information is available in the user manual, which comes with
the board.
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Figure 39. Power Supply Bypassing
CONSTANT BIAS TO RETAIN RESISTANCE SETTING
For users who desire nonvolatility but cannot justify the addi-
tional cost for the EEMEM, the AD5162 may be considered as a
low cost alternative by maintaining a constant bias to retain the
wiper setting. The AD5162 is designed specifically with low
power in mind, which allows low power consumption even in
battery-operated systems. The graph in Figure 40 demonstrates
the power consumption from a 3.4 V 450 mAhr Li-Ion cell
phone battery, which is connected to the AD5162. The measure-
ment over time shows that the device draws approximately
1.3 µA and consumes negligible power. Over a course of
30 days, the battery is depleted by less than 2ꢀ, the majority of
which is due to the intrinsic leakage current of the battery itself.
Figure 41. AD5162 Evaluation Board Software
The AD5162 starts at midscale upon power-up. To increment or
decrement the resistance, the user may simply move the scroll-
bars on the left. To write any specific value, the user should use
the bit pattern in the upper screen and press the Run button.
The format of writing data to the device is shown in Table 8.
This demonstrates that constantly biasing the potentiometer is
not an impractical approach. Most portable devices do not
require the removal of batteries for the purpose of charging.
Although the resistance setting of the AD5162 is lost when the
battery needs replacement, such events occur rather infre-
quently such that this inconvenience is justified by the lower
cost and smaller size offered by the AD5162. If and when total
power is lost, the user should be provided with a means to
adjust the setting accordingly.
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