Analog Devices International Unlimited Company

Analog Devices Global

Miguel Usach Merino

Fergus John Downey

Claire Croke

Michael Hennessy

Anthony Evan O'Shaughnessy

David A Browne

Lluis Beltran Gil

Wes Vernon Lofamia

Thomas Murphy

A data acquisition device comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit configured to produce a digital value from an analog input signal. The ADC circuit includes a signal input, a mode input, a serial output, and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry is configured to shift bits of the digital value out the serial output and change an order of the bits shifted out the serial output according to the mode input.

MCU mode for SPI communication between precision converters and microcontrollers

A Multi-I/O SPI for precision converters supports a Dual/Quad/Octal SPI to support the speed requirements for digital transmission and also includes a special mode that can be enabled by hardware and/or software to remove the bit scrambling requirement dictated by the JEDEC standard. The special mode removes the scramble requirement and associates each of the bidirectional data lines to a specific channel. The special mode provides backward compatibility that permits the precision converter to be used with controllers that do not natively support the JEDEC standard. Also, the Multi-I/O SPI includes registers divided into a primary region that is accessed only in default mode at power-up for write and/or read operations, and a secondary region that is accessed by any mode enabled in the control register. By restricting access to the 'control' register area to a pre-defined mode in the converter at power-up, the access mode can be controlled.

Multi-I/O serial peripheral interface for precision converters

A device having a sample-rate converter that may be programmed to generate samples at different rates is synchronized to an external synchronization pulse by temporarily changing the sample rate to a temporary sample rate and then changing the sample rate back to the original sample rate. Synchronization in a reduced amount of time is achieved by determining the interval between the synchronization pulse and one of the output samples and determining a processing time of the device for generating the output samples at a new rate. The system calculates a temporary sample rate based on these calculations that tends to reduce an amount of time to achieve synchronization.

Resynchronization of sample rate converters

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Miguel Usach Merino