On 6/6/17 1:37 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
Hi
Often when you dig into the details of MCU ADC’s they have a little note
“optimized for audio” or
“not recommended for control loops”. It can be a bit of a head scratcher to
work out what they are
getting at. The big issues in this case seem to be DC leakage and 1/F noise.
Yes, they do sort of go hand in hand :)
You need to be willing to check out the ENOB at DC in order to use them
effectively in a simple
OCXO setup. That or be willing to flip the bridge ends on demand and try to
cancel out the issues.
Unfortunately that adds both complexity and a string of other fun and games.
This one seems to be designed specifically for this kind of DC
measurement, sure, it will sample at 100kHz, but not with the amplifier
and averaging and such.
Its based on the Freescale (now NXP, I guess..) Kinetis K20 series
It has a bewildering variety of peripherals (touch sensors, etc.), as
well as the usual multiple UARTs, SPI, I2C, timers, counters, etc.
What's nice is that PJRC (who make the teensy series) have written all
the drivers and libraries to integrate into the Arduino environment for
those that don't live for decoding the 1000 page processor family manual
and 600 page package specific manuals that give the specific pinouts and
options on the one YOU have in front of you. Your "time to first light"
is much shorter. And then you can hack away.
I think this is more a chip designed for embedded controllers and the
like. I don't know if it has the processor and peripherals to do, say, 3
phase induction motor control or Ultrasound processing, but it might.
The Atmel processors are nice (and you can actually get one of the
Arduino flavor ones in a rad hard version.. for those "control the
device in the beamline" applications), but the Kinetis are easily an
order of magnitude better - no bit banging to do serial protocols, USB
built in, decent ADC, floating point, etc.
Op amps are cheap ….
Bob
On Jun 6, 2017, at 3:54 PM, jimlux <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/6/17 11:47 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
Yes, as I wrote. I would not mess with AREF. At most you can only get a
multiplication about 4. Use an op-amp. Signal conditioning really
almost alway is required in the analog domain before any A/D conversion
Also like the uP is not inside the oven and has a cable of some length so
you'd want a buffered analog signal on the cable, the op-amp can do that
to.
Those $2 parts I linked to have the ADC referenced to 3.3 volts but have 12
bits as compared to the arduino which has 10 bits
or use a Teensy with a 16 bit differential input ADC. Arduino compatible,
cheaper, yeah, you probably get 13 bits real performance from the ADC. Also
has a real analog output (not PWM and a LPF) if you need that.
Programmable gain, sample averaging in hardware, etc. Not bad for <$20.
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