SBASAL2 November 2025 ADC32RF72
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The ADC32RF72 has 1/f noise with a corner frequency of approximately 100MHz. To better illustrate the true noise floor for high performance and RF sampling applications, the ADC noise performance is specified in the following two ways.
SNR: Measured across the full Nyquist zone including 1/f noise
SNRflat, NSDflat: Measured in the flat noise region from 100MHz to FS/2 (750MHz)
Reducing the measurement bandwidth by 100MHz (starting at 100MHz instead of 0Hz) improves the SNR by approximately 0.6dB (10log(750MHz/650MHz) = 10log(0.06) = 0.62dB) assuming flat, uniform noise across the Nyquist zone.
Assuming NSDflat = -163.7dBFS/Hz
SNRflat calculates to:
The 1/f noise is approximately 76.4dBFS. The 1/f noise measurement is shown in Figure 6-2 with a resolution bandwidth of approximately 6MHz. The SNR for full Nyquist zone including 1/f noise calculates to: