AD7173 internal ADC master clock freuqency aging

Hi, 

I do not see any histogram data of internal master clock in the datasheet so I need to check within our team if we have plots to share with you. 

I am curious about how you will screen out the said frequency? Are you somehow going to put a filtering in the AINs but I am not sure how because you have mentioned that the noise frequency present at the input is lower? May I know how low or what's the noise frequency present at the input due to power module noise? I'm sorry I'm just curious how are you planning to do this and how it relates to the internal clock accuracy? 

Thanks,

Jellenie

Hi Jellenie

Thanks for your reply, I'll updater your questions separately.

1. How you will screen out the said frequency?
George_017: The power IC vendor provide the histogram of each wafer LOT which is 100% tested on final ATE, we use the one with higher switching frequency.

2. How low or what's the noise frequency present at the input due to power module noise?
George_017: We acquire the waveform on AD7173's AIN pins, there is around 1.2mV ~2MHz interfering noise which is the same as power IC's switching frequency. The AD7173's converting results show a leaping voltage as high as 0.9mV;
when testing another board of which the power IC's frequency is around 2.1MHz, we can also see the same interfering noise on AIN pins (~2.1MHz 1.32mV), but AD7173's converting results have no jumping.

3.How are you planning to do this and how it relates to the internal clock accuracy?
George_017: We injected different frequency noise, the AD7173's output data returned normal when the injected frequency is above 2.1MHz；so we want to use power IC with higher frequency to avoid possible frequency aliasing.
So we want to know AD7173's master clock histogram as well as master clock's aging trend, will the internal master clock frequency increase or decrease as the working time increases?

Tks.

Hi, 

It is interesting because the analog input bandwidth of the ADC is much lower than the noise frequency. So my thinking is that a simple RC at the input could fixed this issue? 

Thanks,

Jellenie

Anyways, in terms of your requested data.

Like I said I'll check if we have those type of specific data especially the aging trend as we do not usually perform long term drift across all of our specs. We only have reliability testing to ensure that the part meets spec over its lifetime. You can check reliability data here. 

Wafer Fabrication Data | Analog Devices

If in any case we do not have or cannot provide the specific data, I guess a customer would need to measure this type of data themselves in their own system as the system drift is more relevant.

Thanks,

Jellenie

Hi Jellenie

We've already tried to add different low pass filter at the AIN pins, the lowest cross frequency is around 8kHz, but the low pass filter has no use. This the reason why we think maybe there is frequency aliasing between internal master clock and external 2MHz noise. The aliased frequency is too low to be filtered by 8kHz LPF.

I also want to know the function of internal master clock, whether it is the ADC's sample frequency or not?

Tks.

George

Hi Jellenie

We've already tried to add different low pass filter at the AIN pins, the lowest cross frequency is around 8kHz, but the low pass filter has no use. This the reason why we think maybe there is frequency aliasing between internal master clock and external 2MHz noise. The aliased frequency is too low to be filtered by 8kHz LPF.

I also want to know the function of internal master clock, whether it is the ADC's sample frequency or not?

Tks.

George