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AD7687 Operates Single-Ended, not differential.

I have a board with three AD7687's that are acting like single-ended ADC, not differential.

The parts are marked C03 #535.
The devices operating in Chain Mode With Busy Indicator, connected as shown in the datasheet.
Sample rate is 5K samples/second.
SCK period is 110ns (9MHz) 50% duty cycle.

VDD and VREF are both 5.0 Volts. VIO is 3.3V.

I have verified all signals with an oscilloscope and all clocking looks valid, and the data being read by the software matches what I see on SDO with the scope.

All three devices are acting similarly. The following data was collected from one device, and is repeatable.

With a differental input:
IN+ at 1.8V, IN- at 3.25V (a differential of -1.45 V) I get an output around 15XX Hex.
IN+ at 3.7V, IN- of 1.7V (Differential of +2.0V), Output is around 55XX Hex.
Varying between these two conditions, I get ONE intermediate step around 2BXX hex.

If instead, I operate single ended:

IN+ 1.8V, IN- GND, Output is 5BXX.
IN+ 3.6V, IN- Ground, Output is B7XX.
These outputs are about what I would expect from a single-ended ADC.
Also, when I vary between these two conditions, I get nice uniform steps as would be expected.

Going one step further, Grounding IN+ and applying any positive value to IN-, the output is 0000.

Anybody have any clues? Or are my parts not really AD7687's?

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  • Hello,

    It would be helpful if you can share your schematic and scope screenshots showing input and output signals (SDO, SCK, CNV, etc.).

    Are you using one of the driver amplifiers recommended in table 10 of the datasheet?

    Note that the AD7687 is a true differential 16-bit part and it does not have a single-ended or pseudo-diff mode, so when you try to use the part in this mode it is still 'looking' at the world in a differential way and therefore it can NOT be driven in a single-ended or pseudo-diff mode. The AD7687 samples the voltage difference between the IN+ and IN− pins. The AD7687 requires the inputs to be completely anti-phase of each other between 0 V and REF with their DC common-mode around VREF/2. It may not work at all if you ground either the IN+ or IN- pin.

    Regards,

    Maithil

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  • Hello,

    It would be helpful if you can share your schematic and scope screenshots showing input and output signals (SDO, SCK, CNV, etc.).

    Are you using one of the driver amplifiers recommended in table 10 of the datasheet?

    Note that the AD7687 is a true differential 16-bit part and it does not have a single-ended or pseudo-diff mode, so when you try to use the part in this mode it is still 'looking' at the world in a differential way and therefore it can NOT be driven in a single-ended or pseudo-diff mode. The AD7687 samples the voltage difference between the IN+ and IN− pins. The AD7687 requires the inputs to be completely anti-phase of each other between 0 V and REF with their DC common-mode around VREF/2. It may not work at all if you ground either the IN+ or IN- pin.

    Regards,

    Maithil

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