Driving ADC Inputs
Walt Kester and Paul Hendriks
Introduction
Op amps are often used as drivers for ADCs to provide the gain and level-shifting required for the input signal to match the input range of the ADC. An op amp may be required because of the antialiasing filter impedance matching requirements. In some cases, the antialiasing filter may be an active filter and include op amps as part of the filter itself. Some ADCs also generate transient currents on their inputs due to the conversion process, and these must be isolated from the signal source with an op amp. This section examines these and other issues involved in driving high performance ADCs.
To begin with, one shouldn’t necessarily assume that a driver op amp is always ...
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