Is summing a "fine tune" 16bit DAC and a "coarse tune" 16bit (or less)
DAC with an op-amp not good enough?

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Each time I’ve tried the method in the app note, there has been a tone in the 
> output
> spectrum at the sample rate of the ADC. I’ve never found a way to do the 
> grounding
> that eliminates it. The tone is large enough to show up as a spur on a 
> “typical” OCXO
> when it goes into the EFC port.
>
> Bob
>
>> On Nov 26, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Ole Petter Rønningen <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I guess everyone has seen this, but Linear has a nice appnote «A Standards 
>> Lab Grade 20-Bit DAC with 0.1ppm/°C Drift»
>>
>> http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/application-note/an86f.pdf
>>
>> Ole
>>
>>> 26. nov. 2017 kl. 13:50 skrev Magnus Danielson <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>> On 11/26/2017 02:26 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
>>>> Though, if you have a decent 16bit DAC and want to get to 18bit,
>>>> that's fairly simple using delta-sigma modulation... if you can live
>>>> with a low pass fillter after the DAC. But the DNL will be the limiting
>>>> factor here (unless you use some special techniques) and the (absolute) INL
>>>> will not get better, for obvious reasons.
>>>
>>> I needed 19 bit rather than 16 bit, so I implemented an interpolation 
>>> scheme. A first degree sigma-delta would also be possible, but for low 
>>> ratios what I did was more efficient.
>>>
>>> A first degree sigma-delta is fairly simple thought.
>>>
>>> The trick is that you want to push the noise high up so it becomes trivial 
>>> to filter, then the filter will not be hard to design and won't be low 
>>> enough to cause PLL instability and implementation troubles.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Magnus
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