●The ADC07D1520 is the latest advance in Texas Instrument’s Ultra-High-Speed ADC family. This low-power, high-performance CMOS analog-to-digital converter digitizes signals at 7-bit resolution for dual channels at sampling rates of up to 1.5 GSPS (Non-Interleave Mode) or for a single channel up to 3.0 GSPS (Interleave Mode). The ADC07D1520 achieves excellent accuracy and dynamic performance while dissipating lowest power in class.
●The ADC07D1520 Reference Board (ADC07D1520RB) is designed to assist in the evaluation of the ADC in a system, as well as serve as a reference design for the customer’s system. All that are required, in addition to the Reference Board kit, in order to use it are a PC and a signal generator for the analog input. A bandpass or lowpass filter for the analog input is also strongly recommended.
●This platform can be evaluated and controlled via WaveVision5 software, which has been developed for use with it. The on-board FPGA captures data from the ADC and transfers it to the PC via the USB connection. Data may be viewed in the time domain, frequency domain, or as a histogram. The ADC07D1520 control registers, which offer additional mode selection and features, may also be accessed via the WaveVision5 GUI interface.
●The features of this board are designed to allow for maximum flexibility and convenience. The analog input may be configured for AC- or DC-coupling and two balun boards of different frequency ranges are provided to achieve single-ended to differential conversion from a signal source. Texas Instrument’s on-board LMX2541 provides a sampling clock at 1.5 GHz. Alternately, an external clock at a different frequency may be used for the sampling clock. A 12V brick supply provides power to the board and the power supply section, which regulates this supply down to the various required voltages, serves as a model for a customer system. See the User’s Guide for a complete description of features.
●New Reference Board features include an FMC connector Expansion Header to enable streaming data applications, and updated status LED’s.
