ADC084S021
SNAS279E –APRIL 2005–REVISED MARCH 2013
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EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF BITS (ENOB, or EFFECTIVE BITS) is another method of specifying Signal-to-Noise
and Distortion or SINAD. ENOB is defined as (SINAD − 1.76) / 6.02 and says that the converter is
equivalent to a perfect ADC of this (ENOB) number of bits.
FULL POWER BANDWIDTH is a measure of the frequency at which the reconstructed output fundamental
drops 3 dB below its low frequency value for a full scale input.
FULL SCALE ERROR (FSE) is a measure of how far the last code transition is from the ideal 1½ LSB below
+
VREF and is defined as:
+
VFSE = Vmax + 1.5 LSB – VREF
where
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Vmax is the voltage at which the transition to the maximum code occurs
FSE can be expressed in Volts, LSB or percent of full scale range
(1)
GAIN ERROR is the deviation of the last code transition (111...110) to (111...111) from the ideal (VREF − 1.5
LSB), after adjusting for offset error.
INTEGRAL NON-LINEARITY (INL) is a measure of the deviation of each individual code from a line drawn from
negative full scale (½ LSB below the first code transition) through positive full scale (½ LSB above the last
code transition). The deviation of any given code from this straight line is measured from the center of that
code value.
INTERMODULATION DISTORTION (IMD) is the creation of additional spectral components as a result of two
sinusoidal frequencies being applied to the ADC input at the same time. It is defined as the ratio of the
power in the second and third order intermodulation products to the sum of the power in both of the
original frequencies. IMD is usually expressed in dB.
MISSING CODES are those output codes that will never appear at the ADC outputs. These codes cannot be
reached with any input value. The ADC084S021 is ensured not to have any missing codes.
OFFSET ERROR is the deviation of the first code transition (000...000) to (000...001) from the ideal (i.e. GND +
0.5 LSB).
SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR) is the ratio, expressed in dB, of the rms value of the input signal at the
converter output to the rms value of the sum of all other spectral components below one-half the sampling
frequency, not including d.c. or harmonics included in the THD specification.
SIGNAL TO NOISE PLUS DISTORTION (S/N+D or SINAD) Is the ratio, expressed in dB, of the rms value of
the input signal to the rms value of all of the other spectral components below half the clock frequency,
including harmonics but excluding d.c.
SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE (SFDR) is the difference, expressed in dB, between the rms values of the
input signal and the peak spurious signal where a spurious signal is any signal present in the output
spectrum that is not present at the input, excluding d.c.
TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD) is the ratio, expressed in dB or dBc, of the rms total of the first five
harmonic components at the output to the rms level of the input signal frequency as seen at the output.
THD is calculated as
2
2
A
+3+ A
f2
f6
THD = 20 • log
10
2
A
f1
where
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•
Af1 is the RMS power of the input frequency at the output
Af2 through Af6 are the RMS power in the first 5 harmonic frequencies
(2)
THROUGHPUT TIME is the minimum time required between the start of two successive conversion. It is the
acquisition time plus the conversion and read out times. In the case of the ADC084S021, this is 16 SCLK
periods.
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