LTC1069-6
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APPLICATIONS INFORMATION
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quency contents much higher than the applied clock; their
amplitude strongly depends on scope probing techniques
as well as grounding and power supply bypassing. The
clock feedthrough can be reduced by adding a single RC
lowpass filter at the Output (Pin 8).
V
V
= SINGLE 5V
S
= 1V
IN
RMS
1
0
85°C
–40°C
Wideband Noise
f
= 750kHz
CLK
–1
–2
f
= 15kHz
CUTOFF
The wideband noise of the filter is the total RMS value of
the device’s noise spectral density and determines the
operating signal-to-noise ratio. The frequency contents of
the wideband noise lie within the filter’s passband. The
wideband noise cannot be reduced by adding post filter-
ing. The total wideband noise is nearly independent of the
clock frequency and depends slightly on the power supply
voltage (see Table 3). The clock feedthrough specifica-
tions are not part of the wideband noise.
1
3
5
7
9
11 13 15 17 19 21
FREQUENCY (kHz)
1069-6 F04a
Figure 4b
2
1
V
V
= ±5V
= 1.5V
S
IN
RMS
Table 3. Wideband Noise
85°C
V
S
WIDEBAND NOISE
0
–40°C
3.3V
5V
118µV
123µV
127µV
RMS
RMS
RMS
f
= 1MHz
= 20kHz
CLK
CUTOFF
–1
–2
f
±5V
1
4
7
10 13 16 19 22 25 28 31
FREQUENCY (kHz)
1069-6 F04c
Aliasing
Aliasing is an inherent phenomenon of sampled data
systemsandoccursforinputfrequenciesapproachingthe
sampling frequency. The internal sampling frequency of
the LTC1069-6 is 100 times its cutoff frequency. For
instance, if a 98.5kHz, 100mVRMS signal is applied at the
input of an LTC1069-6 operating with a 50kHz clock, a
1.5kHz, 484µVRMS alias signal will appear at the filter
output. Table 4 shows details.
Figure 4c
Clock Feedthrough
The clock feedthrough is defined as the RMS value of the
clock frequency and its harmonics that are present at the
filter’sOutput(Pin8). Theclockfeedthroughistestedwith
the Input (Pin 4) shorted to AGND (Pin 1) and depends on
PC board layout and on the value of the power supplies.
With proper layout techniques the values of the clock
feedthrough are shown in Table 2.
Table 4. Aliasing (fCLK = 50kHz)
INPUT FREQUENCY
OUTPUT LEVEL
(Relative to Input)
(dB)
OUTPUT FREQUENCY
(Aliased Frequency)
(kHz)
(V = 1V
)
IN
RMS
(kHz)
Table 2. Clock Feedthrough
f
/f = 50:1, f
= 1kHz
CLK
C
CUTOFF
V
S
CLOCK FEEDTHROUGH
96 (or 104)
97 (or 103)
–78.3
–70.4
–80.6
–46.3
–2.8
4.0
3.0
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
3.3V
5V
100µV
170µV
350µV
RMS
RMS
RMS
98 (or 102)
10V
98.5 (or 101.5)
99 (or 101)
Any parasitic switching transients during the rising and
fallingedgesoftheincomingclockarenotpartoftheclock
feedthroughspecifications. Switchingtransientshavefre-
99.5 (or 100.5)
–1.38
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