Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Hobbs Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: AD5791 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:58:54 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0de4698a6dd44801af72791eed81064"; logging-data="668560"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19F3uzbJBjMN/xuTBBs9dy6" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UWx1prP796nzxzGYhqVqYblYTPU= sha1:nnI6oIg74ecWbp0XdyNkRXQpWqo= Bytes: 2622 john larkin wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 21:53:13 +0200, Jeroen Belleman > wrote: > >> On 6/4/24 19:48, john larkin wrote: >>> https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad5791.html >>> >>> That's an amazing part. 20 bit DAC with 1 PPM accuracy and 0.05 PPM >>> per degree C tempco. >>> >>> My main gripe is its 3.4K output impedance, which makes a lot of >>> Johnson noise. I suppose I could run a bunch in parallel. >>> >> >> But you can power the chip from +/-16V and the LSB can be in >> the 25uV ballpark. The Johnson noise of 7.5nV/rtHz doesn't >> seem so bad then, does it? >> >> Jeroen Belleman > > That helps some. +-14v is about the limit on the references. We'd have > to divide down to get our +-10v range back, and that would need some > crazy stable resistors. > > Looks like the other way to get the noise down would be to parallel a > number of DACs. Times 8 channels! Ballpark $100 per DAC, which is > actually feasible. > > It will of course need crazy-low-noise hyper-stable references. > > I wonder how ADI tests these parts. I can't buy a 1 PPM accurate DVM. > > Its quoted rise time is 1us, corresponding to a 3 dB bandwidth of about 350 kHz, or 550 kHz noise bandwidth. With 7.5 nV 1-Hz noise, the total RMS noise should be about 5.6 uV, just about half a LSB at 10V FS. Not that shabby. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics