JAJU446A December   2017  – January 2022

 

  1.   概要
  2.   Resources
  3.   特長
  4.   アプリケーション
  5.   5
  6. 1 System Description
    1. 1.1 Key System Specifications
  7. 2 System Overview
    1. 2.1 Block Diagram
    2. 2.2 System-Level Description
    3. 2.3 Highlighted Products
      1. 2.3.1 Analog Signal Chain
        1. 2.3.1.1 LMH5401
        2. 2.3.1.2 LHM6401
        3. 2.3.1.3 BUF802
      2. 2.3.2 Clock
        1. 2.3.2.1 LMK61E2
        2. 2.3.2.2 LMK04828
        3. 2.3.2.3 LMX2594
      3. 2.3.3 Power
        1. 2.3.3.1 TPS82130
        2. 2.3.3.2 TPS7A84
    4. 2.4 System Design Theory
      1. 2.4.1 High-Speed, Low-Phase Noise Clock Generation
      2. 2.4.2 Channel-to-Channel Skew
      3. 2.4.3 Deterministic Latency
        1. 2.4.3.1 Importance of Deterministic Latency
      4. 2.4.4 Analog Front End
      5. 2.4.5 Multichannel System Power Requirement
      6. 2.4.6 Hardware Programming
  8. 3 Circuit Design
    1. 3.1 Analog Input Front End
      1. 3.1.1 High-Input Impedance Buffer Implementation Using the BUF802
    2. 3.2 High-Speed Multichannel Clocking
    3. 3.3 Power Supply Section
      1. 3.3.1 DC-DC
        1. 3.3.1.1 How to Set 2.1-V Output Voltage
      2. 3.3.2 LDOs
  9. 4 Host Interface
  10. 5 Hardware Functional Block
  11. 6 Getting Started Application GUI
  12. 7 Testing and Results
    1. 7.1 Test Setup and Test Plan
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    3. 7.2 SNR Measurement Test
    4. 7.3 Channel-to-Channel Skew Measurement Test
    5. 7.4 Performance Test Result
    6. 7.5 Multichannel Skew Measurement
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  13. 8 Design Files
    1. 8.1 Schematics
    2. 8.2 Bill of Materials
    3. 8.3 Altium Project
    4. 8.4 Gerber Files
    5. 8.5 Assembly Drawings
  14. 9 Software Files
  15. 10Related Documentation
    1. 10.1 Trademarks
  16. 11About the Authors
    1. 11.1 Acknowledgment
  17. 12Revision History

1 System Description

The objective of this reference design is to demonstrate a multichannel analog front end (AFE) with a pin-compatible analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) family for different sampling rates requirements. The system signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measures the AFE performance, which is then compared with the onboard passive balun and active balun and an LMH5401 fully differential amplifier (FDA) with an LMH6401 programmable variable gain amplifier (PVGA). The onboard, complete multichannel clocking solution is designed based on TI high-performance clocking parts LMK61E2, LMK4828, and LMX2594. Table 1-1 lists the key system-level specifications from the AFE with a multichannel clocking perspective.

Multichannel, high-speed, giga-sample acquisition applications such as a digital storage oscilloscope (DSO), phased-array radio detection and ranging (RADAR), multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) for wireless communication, and 5G wireless testers all require accurate phase coherence between channels for accurate data acquisition with a high-input signal bandwidth.

Most high-speed digitizers (DSOs) feature only a few channels. Synchronizing the sample clock in a multichannel system is necessary in applications that require tens or hundreds of channels and time correlation between these channels. Clock synchronization in a system with just a few channels is very challenging in and of itself and even more complex when working with an increased channel count.