decimating a delta-sigma ADC

Oct 04, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 2 Replies

There are some dynamite isolated d-s ADCs around. You give them a 20 MHz clock and they output a single clocked logic level whose duty cycle expresses the analog input.



The data bit is "decimated", really averaged, to give an integer analog value. That is usually done in an FPGA, with a sinc3 filter or something.



I'm wondering of such an ADC can be used without an FPGA.



I guess an analog lowpass filter and a regular low-speed ADC might work, at moderate accuracy.



Or, more radical, use the SPI port of a uP to gather up bits and let software take over. A 125 MHz ARM has a lot of compute power.


onsdag den 4. oktober 2023 kl. 18.56.24 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

or use the module in some MCUs meant for DSM/PDM

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It's not the error output that suffers using a simple filter, it's the response time, so, essentially, the upper frequency response. But, you can use a higher cutoff on the filter for a faster response time, which will impact the output error.

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