LTC2379-18
18-Bit, 1.6Msps, Low Power
SAR ADC with 101.2dB SNR
FEATURES
DESCRIPTION
The LTC®2379-18 is a low noise, low power, high speed
18-bit successive approximation register (SAR) ADC. Op-
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1.6Msps Throughput Rate
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2ꢀSꢁ INꢀ ꢂMaꢃx
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Guaranteed 18-ꢁit No Missing Codes
erating from a 2.5V supply, the LTC2379-18 has a V
fullydifferentialinputrangewithV rangingfrom2.5Vto
5.1V.TheLTC2379-18consumesonly18mWandachieves
2LSꢀ ꢁIL maximum, no missing codes at 18-bits with
101.2dꢀ SIR.
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ꢀow Power: 18mW at 1.6Msps, 18µW at 1.6ksps
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101.2dꢁ SNR ꢂtypx at f = 2kHz
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–120dꢁ THD ꢂtypx at f = 2kHz
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Digital Gain Compression ꢂDGCx
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Guaranteed Operation to 125°C
The LTC2379-18 has a high speed SPꢁ-compatible se-
rial interface that supports 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V and 5V logic
while also featuring a daisychain mode. The fast 1.6Msps
throughput with no cycle latency makes the LTC2379-18
ideally suited for a wide variety of high speed applications.
Aninternaloscillatorsetstheconversiontime,easingexter-
nal timing considerations. The LTC2379-18 automatically
powers down between conversions, leading to reduced
power dissipation that scales with the sampling rate.
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2.5V Supply
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Fully Differential ꢁnput Range V
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V
ꢁnput Range from 2.5V to 5.1V
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Io Pipeline Delay, Io Cycle Latency
1.8V to 5V ꢁ/O Voltages
SPꢁ-Compatible Serial ꢁ/O with Daisychain Mode
ꢁnternal Conversion Clock
16-pin MSOP and 4mm × 3mm DFI Packages
The LTC2379-18 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 ꢁmaging
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High Speed Data Acquisition
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Portable or Compact ꢁnstrumentation
ꢁndustrial Process Control
Low Power ꢀattery-Operated ꢁnstrumentation
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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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TYPICAL APPLICATION
32k Point FFT fS = 1.6Msps, fIN = 2kHz
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2.5V 1.8V TO 5V
10µF
SNR = 101.2dB
–20
–40
THD = –120dB
SINAD = 101.1dB
SFDR = 121dB
0.1µF
–60
V
OV
DD
CHAIN
RDL/SDI
SDO
SCK
BUSY
CNV
DD
3300pF
3300pF
3300pF
V
V
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20Ω
20Ω
+
–
–80
IN
+
–
0V
–100
–120
–140
–160
–180
LTC2379-18
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IN
SAMPLE CLOCK
0V
V
REF/DGC
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GND
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237918 TA01
2.5V TO 5.1V
47µF
(X5R, 0805 SIZE)
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100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
FREQUENCY (kHz)
237918 TA02
237918f
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