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Thermocouple measurement using LTC2368-24 Noise

Category: Hardware

Hello everyone,

i started a little project using LTC2368-24  ( LTC2368CMS24 )  and  the reference voltage source is using a 3.3volt from  LTC6655BHMS8-3.3.

Using 3.3v for vref, i expect to have aprox 0.196 uV/ LSB.

All voltages for the adc chip are buffered with 100n & 47 uf capacitors.

The design is on a 2 layer pcb.

I am stil in the debug phase with this project, so i wanted to see how low can it measure.

So i have shorted to ground both IN+ and IN- and see how low it measures., and i cannot read bellow 97-200 uV.

Tried also with shorting only IN+ & IN-, and the read voltage is a little lower... near 100uV

Tryied even with multiple filtering samples ( 1,32,64... even with 8192 samples), the results are mostly the same.

Most of the read values are in the 0x002XXX .. 0x001FXX hex range.

I also measured the voltage ac ripple on the vref line & the 2v5 line, 1-2mV ripple, didn't saw something noticable.

So at this point i am considering to move everything to a 4 layer pcb, but before i said to ask.

I know in the datasheet there is specified a noise for specific sampling rates, for example at 1 sample is specified 68LSBs, but at 3.3V ref, this would yeld arround 13 uV noise.

But 100-200uV is quite far away, so i am wondering what  i measure is it normal?

Thank you