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AD8116 circuit

Hi ,

We are using AD8118 32x 32 Analog crosspoint ,

We are using this in as a single Ended operation with input data speed of 300 Mhz , i have attached the power circuit for one channelh.

We are seeing a 20mVp-p noise on the output pins .Up till now we were using AD8118 and were seeing a 6-8 Vp-p noise .


Could you please let me know with regards to the following ,

We have seen there is no change even after removing the 75 Ω and 150 Ω resistor(Circled red) and connecting it to ground directly .

1. Is it fine to remove the 75 Ω and 150 Ω resistor and connecting it to ground directly .

    If there is not problem then , we are thing of putting a Decoupling capcitor to reduce the noise .

2.If noise Reduction is considered , which is the better Diffrential  or Single - Ended operation .

Please let me know with regards to this .

Thanking you

With best regards and wishes

  • Hello wallman16,

    I'm not clear which part exhibited the most noise.  The AD8118 has approximately 3.5x input referred voltage noise as the AD8116, so I would expect that you would see more noise with the AD8118.  The 3.5x factor correlates well with the noise numbers you presented.

    I do not recommend making the resistor changes you indicated in your drawing.  I recommend that you make the resistor that feeds the inverting input of the driver 27 ohms; this resistor should equal the Thevenin resistance looking back to the source from the non-inverting input.  In this case it is 36 || (75 + 39), presuming a 75 ohm source.  The load on the unused output should remain at 150 ohms.  The major noise source in these switches is the input referred voltage noise -- the external resistor values are small enough that their noise contributions are negligible.

    Best regards,

    --Jonathan

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