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APPLICATION HINTS

GROUNDING AND LAYOUT

The printed circuit board that houses the AD7680 should be

designed such that the analog and digital sections are separated

and confined to certain areas of the board. This facilitates the

use of ground planes that can be separated easily. A minimum

etch technique is generally best for ground planes, because it

gives the best shielding. Digital and analog ground planes

should be joined at only one place. If the AD7680 is in a system

where multiple devices require an AGND to DGND

connection, the connection should still be made at one point

only, a star ground point that should be established as close as

possible to the AD7680.

Avoid running digital lines under the device because these

couple noise onto the die. The analog ground plane should be

allowed to run under the AD7680 to avoid noise coupling. The

power supply lines to the AD7680 should use as large a trace as

possible to provide low impedance paths and reduce the effects

of glitches on the power supply line. Fast switching signals, such

as clocks, should be shielded with digital ground to avoid

radiating noise to other sections of the board, and clock signals

should never be run near the analog inputs. Avoid crossover of

digital and analog signals. Traces on opposite sides of the board

should run at right angles to each other, which reduces the

effects of feedthrough on the board. A microstrip technique is

by far the best but is not always possible with a double-sided

board. In this technique, the component side of the board is

dedicated to ground planes while the signals are placed on the

solder side.

Good decoupling is also very important. All analog supplies

should be decoupled with 10 μF tantalum in parallel with

0.1 μF capacitors to AGND, as discussed in the Typical

Connection Diagram section. To achieve the best performance

from these decoupling components, the user should attempt to

keep the distance between the decoupling capacitors and the

VDD and GND pins to a minimum, with short track lengths

connecting the respective pins.

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