SBASAI9 December 2025 ADS122S14
PRODUCTION DATA
The signal chain of the ADS1x2S14 uses a very low-drift, chopper-stabilized PGA and delta-sigma modulator to provide very low offset error and offset drift. However, a small amount of offset drift remains in normal measurement. For that reason, the devices incorporate an optional global-chop mode to reduce offset error and offset drift over both temperature and time to exceptionally low levels. When the global-chop mode is enabled by setting the GC_EN bit, the device performs two consecutive conversions with alternate input signal polarity to cancel offset error. The first conversion is taken with normal input polarity. The global-chop control logic inverts the input polarity and resets the digital filter for the second conversion. The average of the two conversions yields the final offset-corrected result. Figure 7-12 illustrates a block diagram of the global-chop implementation. VOFS models the combined PGA and ADC internal offset voltage. Only this device-inherent offset voltage is reduced by the global-chop mode. Any offset in the external circuitry connected to the analog inputs is not affected by global-chop mode.
The operational sequence of global-chop mode is as follows:
The first conversion result (Output 1) after a conversion start is available after the device performed two settled conversions. Equation 10 calculates the time required to output the first conversion result after a conversion start.
In continuous-conversion mode with global-chop mode enabled, subsequent conversions complete in tGC_DATA, as calculated by Equation 11.
Where:
The device waits the programmable delay time after inverting the input polarity before starting the next conversion, to allow for the internal circuitry to settle. In some cases, the programmable delay time must be increased to allow for settling of external components.
Global-chop mode reduces the ADC noise by a factor of √2 because two conversions are averaged. Divide the input-referred noise values in Table 6-1 to Table 6-3 by √2 to derive the noise performance when global-chop mode is enabled.
The digital filter notches do not change in global-chop mode. However, additional filter notches appear at multiples of fGC_DATA / 2.