Post Go back to editing

Two AD1939 daisy chained: schematic?

Category: Hardware
Product Number: AD1939

Dear forum,

we consider driving two AD1939 chips from one BF706 DSP in a daisy-chain setup.

Unfortunately, I did not find any schematic that clearly indicates how to use the SPORT signals.

Is there any resource that I missed?

Also, will there be any impact on analog performance? We will not need more than fs=48kHz.

BR Andre

  • Hello ALodwig607,

    There is no impact on analog performance and the data in or out is all done during the same sample period. So there is not even a delay between the ADC samples or DAC samples between one chip and the other. 

    Table 13 in the datasheet helps to show the direction of the pins. 

    There are many more details. Start with figure 18 for the DACs. That diagram explains it. 

    You might want to use the Dual Line mode to lower the bit clock rate to make it have a greater timing margin. Figure 19 is for that mode. 

    Figure 21 is for the ADC side. 

    You probably do not need to run at the faster rate shown in figure 22 unless you have to because of the DAC side. The advantage of running the DAC in dual line is that both the DAC side and ADC side can operate in TDM-8 mode which is better. 

    Dave T