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05/28/08 01:27
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#155196 - Drop the Trim
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Actually you can get so close to precision with the resistors shown that the trim pot should not even be a consideration. I would only consider a trimpot for adjusting things that you have NO control over. In this simple circuit you are in total control through component selection. I agree that the idea to use two unity gains buffers like you suggest should work nicely. You could also look at a opamp summer circuit where you incorporate the attenuator and offset into the opamp input and feedback resistors. Use low offset and quality opamps. Linear Tech makes some of the ones I like best.

Also take a look at your bandwidth requirements. If you have a higher bandwidth and there is come capacitance on the traces going to the A/D input you may want to scale the attenuator resistors down by some factor to reduce the R/C settling time. On the other hand maybe that is not of concern and maybe you'll be adding additional filtering to prevent anti-aliasing.

Good Luck
Michael Karas


List of 17 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
ADC of Silabs MCU            01/01/70 00:00      
   At best the SiLabs A/D....            01/01/70 00:00      
      A Simple Attenuator            01/01/70 00:00      
         Tweaking...            01/01/70 00:00      
            Further tweaking..            01/01/70 00:00      
               yes            01/01/70 00:00      
                  I had that coming..            01/01/70 00:00      
               Drop the Trim            01/01/70 00:00      
                  100% practical with theory            01/01/70 00:00      
                     For your A/D Subsystem....            01/01/70 00:00      
               buffer op-amp            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Chosen Op-Amp : CA5420A            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Settling time?            01/01/70 00:00      
                        My signal is a slowly varying one            01/01/70 00:00      
                           settling time            01/01/70 00:00      
   internal reference specified from 2.36 to 2.48 V!            01/01/70 00:00      
      do not calibrate if you can avoid it            01/01/70 00:00      

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