Saturday, 15 March 2014

Continuation of ADC - DIGITAL RAMP A/D CONVERTER



This ADC consists of Counter, a DAC, an Analog comparator and a control AND gate comparator serves as the active LOW end of conversion signal EOC.
  
WORKING:
    
A state pulse is applied to reset the counter to zero.when start pulse is HIGH it inhibit the clock to pass into the counter as  it passed with AND gate with start pulse.
When input contains all 0 then DAC’s output Vi=0.
Since V1 > Vi, therefore comparator output EOC (active low signal)will be high
When start becomes LOW AND gate is enabled which allows the clock pulses to pass through the counter
As counter advances DAC output, Vi increases one step at a time.
This continues until Vi reaches to a step that exceeds V1 by amount equal to or greater than threshold voltage Vd. At this point, EOC (ALS) will go LOW and inhibit flow of pulses into the counter and it will stop counting.
Now, conversion process is complete as signaled by the HIGH to LOW transition at EOC, and contents of counter are digital representation ofV1
The counter will hold this digital value until next Start pulse initiates a new conversion.

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