Nunzi, Emilia and Carbone, Paolo and Petri, Dario (2004) A Procedure for High Reproducible Measurements of ADC Spectral Parameters. UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
The evaluation of spectral parameters characterizing analog–to–digital converters (ADC) is addressed by applying a single or dual tone generator to the device input and by properly processing its output data stream. The coherent sampling condition, highly recommended by the IEEE standards 1057 and 1241 which list the most effective ADC testing procedures, is usually difficult to achieve, and sometimes even unfeasible. In fact, it requires a fine synchronization between the input and the sampling signals frequencies and it can not be achieved when spurious tones are present in the ADC output spectrum. Data windowing is usually employed to reduce the associated spectral leakage phenomenon. However, IEEE standards do not provide clear criteria for choosing the window to be used for testing a given b–bit converter. Therefore, a reduced measurement reproducibility can result. The European draft standard Dynad suggests the employment of one out of seven windows in accordance to the ADC resolution. However, each proposed sequence covers only a limited converter resolution range. In this paper an ADC testing procedure is described, suitable to yield highly repeatable and reproducible measurements also when non–coherent sampling applies. To this aim, the use of a class of windows is proposed, that uniquely applies to ADCs with arbitrarily high resolution. Finally, experimental results that validate its effectiveness are presented.
Item Type: | Departmental Technical Report |
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Department or Research center: | Information Engineering and Computer Science |
Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7885 Computer Engineering T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5105.5 Computer Networks T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Digitizer FFT test, FFT test procedure, DPSS windows |
Report Number: | DIT-04-038 |
Repository staff approval on: | 02 Jul 2004 |
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