ADC08D1000DEV NSC [National Semiconductor], ADC08D1000DEV Datasheet - Page 36

• Manufacturer Part Number: ADC08D1000DEV
• Description: High Performance, Low Power, Dual 8-Bit, 1 GSPS A/D Converter
• Manufacturer: NSC [National Semiconductor]

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amount of heat from the package, as well as to ensure best
product parametric performance.
To maximize the removal of heat from the package, a thermal
land pattern must be incorporated on the PC board within the
footprint of the package. The exposed pad of the device must
be soldered down to ensure adequate heat conduction out of
the package. The land pattern for this exposed pad should be
at least as large as the 5 x 5 mm of the exposed pad of the
package and be located such that the exposed pad of the
device is entirely over that thermal land pattern. This thermal
land pattern should be electrically connected to ground. A
clearance of at least 0.5 mm should separate this land pattern
from the mounting pads for the package pins.
Since a large aperture opening may result in poor release, the
aperture opening should be subdivided into an array of small-
er openings, similar to the land pattern of Figure 18.
To minimize junction temperature, it is recommended that a
simple heat sink be built into the PCB. This is done by includ-
ing a copper area of about 2 square inches (6.5 square cm)
on the opposite side of the PCB. This copper area may be
plated or solder coated to prevent corrosion, but should not
have a conformal coating, which could provide some thermal
insulation. Thermal vias should be used to connect these top
and bottom copper areas. These thermal vias act as "heat
pipes" to carry the thermal energy from the device side of the
board to the opposite side of the board where it can be more
effectively dissipated. The use of 9 to 16 thermal vias is rec-
ommended.
The thermal vias should be placed on a 1.2 mm grid spacing
and have a diameter of 0.30 to 0.33 mm. These vias should
be barrel plated to avoid solder wicking into the vias during
the soldering process as this wicking could cause voids in the
solder between the package exposed pad and the thermal
land on the PCB. Such voids could increase the thermal re-
sistance between the device and the thermal land on the
board, which would cause the device to run hotter.
If it is desired to monitor die temperature, a temperature sen-
sor may be mounted on the heat sink area of the board near
the thermal vias. .Allow for a thermal gradient between the
temperature sensor and the ADC08D1000 die of θ
typical power consumption = 2.8 x 1.6 = 4.5°C. Allowing for a
5.5°C (including an extra 1°C) temperature drop from the die
to the temperature sensor, then, would mean that maintaining
a maximum pad temperature reading of 124.5°C will ensure
that the die temperature does not exceed 130°C, assuming
that the exposed pad of the ADC08D1000 is properly sol-
dered down and the thermal vias are adequate. (The inaccu-
FIGURE 18. Recommended Package Land Pattern
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racy of the temperature sensor is additional to the above
calculation).
2.7 LAYOUT AND GROUNDING
Proper grounding and proper routing of all signals are essen-
tial to ensure accurate conversion. A single ground plane
should be used, instead of splitting the ground plane into ana-
log and digital areas.
Since digital switching transients are composed largely of
high frequency components, the skin effect tells us that total
ground plane copper weight will have little effect upon the
logic-generated noise. Total surface area is more important
than is total ground plane volume. Coupling between the typ-
ically noisy digital circuitry and the sensitive analog circuitry
can lead to poor performance that may seem impossible to
isolate and remedy. The solution is to keep the analog cir-
cuitry well separated from the digital circuitry.
High power digital components should not be located on or
near any linear component or power supply trace or plane that
services analog or mixed signal components as the resulting
common return current path could cause fluctuation in the
analog input “ground” return of the ADC, causing excessive
noise in the conversion result.
Generally, we assume that analog and digital lines should
cross each other at 90° to avoid getting digital noise into the
analog path. In high frequency systems, however, avoid
crossing analog and digital lines altogether. The input clock
lines should be isolated from ALL other lines, analog AND
digital. The generally accepted 90° crossing should be avoid-
ed as even a little coupling can cause problems at high
frequencies. Best performance at high frequencies is ob-
tained with a straight signal path.
The analog input should be isolated from noisy signal traces
to avoid coupling of spurious signals into the input. This is
especially important with the low level drive required of the
ADC08D1000. Any external component (e.g., a filter capaci-
tor) connected between the converter's input and ground
should be connected to a very clean point in the analog
ground plane. All analog circuitry (input amplifiers, filters, etc.)
should be separated from any digital components.
2.8 DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE
The ADC08D1000 is a.c. tested and its dynamic performance
is guaranteed. To meet the published specifications and avoid
jitter-induced noise, the clock source driving the CLK input
must exhibit low rms jitter. The allowable jitter is a function of
the input frequency and the input signal level, as described in
Section 2.3.
It is good practice to keep the ADC input clock line as short
as possible, to keep it well away from any other signals and
to treat it as a transmission line. Other signals can introduce
jitter into the input clock signal. The clock signal can also in-
troduce noise into the analog path if not isolated from that
path.
Best dynamic performance is obtained when the exposed pad
at the back of the package has a good connection to ground.
This is because this path from the die to ground is a lower
impedance than offered by the package pins.
2.9 USING THE SERIAL INTERFACE
The ADC08D1000 may be operated in the non-extended con-
trol (non-Serial Interface) mode or in the extended control
mode. Table 6 and Table 7 describe the functions of pins 3,
4, 14 and 127 in the non-extended control mode and the ex-
tended control mode, respectively.