LTC2378-20
20-Bit, 1Msps, Low Power
SAR ADC with 0.5ppm INL
FeaTures
DescripTion
The LTC®2378-20 is a low noise, low power, high speed
20-bit successive approximation register (SAR) ADC.
Operating from a 2.5V supply, the LTC2378-20 has a
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1Msps Throughput Rate
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±±0.ppꢀ INꢁ ꢂTyp)
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Guaranteed 2±-Bit No Missing Codes
ꢁow Power: 21ꢀW at 1Msps, 21µW at 1ksps
1±4dB SNR ꢂTyp) at f = 2kHz
–12.dB THD ꢂTyp) at f = 2kHz
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V
fully differential input range with V ranging from
REF REF
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2.5V to 5.1V. The LTC2378-20 consumes only 21mW and
achieves 2ppm INL maximum, no missing codes at 20
bits with 104dB SNR.
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Digital Gain Coꢀpression ꢂDGC)
Guaranteed Operation to 85°C
2.5V Supply
The LTC2378-20 has a high speed SPI-compatible serial
interface that supports 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V and 5V logic
while also featuring a daisy-chain mode. The fast 1Msps
throughput with no cycle latency makes the LTC2378-20
ideally suited for a wide variety of high speed applications.
Aninternaloscillatorsetstheconversiontime,easingexter-
nal timing considerations. The LTC2378-20 automatically
powers down between conversions, leading to reduced
power dissipation that scales with the sampling rate.
Fully Differential Input Range V
REF
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Input Range from 2.5V to 5.1V
REF
No Pipeline Delay, No Cycle Latency
1.8V to 5V I/O Voltages
SPI-Compatible Serial I/O with Daisy-Chain Mode
Internal Conversion Clock
16-Lead MSOP and 4mm × 3mm DFN Packages
The LTC2378-20 features a unique digital gain compres-
sion(DGC)function,whicheliminatesthedriveramplifier’s
negative supply while preserving the full resolution of the
ADC. When enabled, the ADC performs a digital scaling
applicaTions
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Medical Imaging
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High Speed Data Acquisition
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Portable or Compact Instrumentation
Industrial Process Control
Low Power Battery-Operated Instrumentation
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function that maps zero-scale code from 0V to 0.1 • V
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and full-scale code from V
to 0.9 • V . For a typical
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reference voltage of 5V, the full-scale input range is now
0.5V to 4.5V, which provides adequate headroom for
powering the driving amplifier from a single 5.5V supply.
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7705765, 7961132, 8319673.
Typical applicaTion
Integral Nonlinearity vs Output Code
2.0
2.5V 1.8V TO 5V
10µF
1.5
0.1µF
1.0
0.5
V
OV
DD
CHAIN
RDL/SDI
SDO
SCK
BUSY
CNV
REF/DGC
DD
6800pF
3300pF
6800pF
V
V
REF
10Ω
10Ω
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–
IN
+
–
0
0V
LTC2378-20
REF
–0.5
–1.0
–1.5
–2.0
IN
SAMPLE CLOCK
0V
V
REF
REF
GND
REF
237820 TA01
2.5V TO 5.1V
47µF
(X7R, 1210 SIZE)
0
262144
524288
786432 1048576
OUTPUT CODE
237820 TA02
237820f
1
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