??? 05/28/08 01:27 Read: times |
#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 |
Topic | Author | Date |
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 |