Analog Output; Analog Output Glitch - National Instruments DAQ PCI-6023E User Manual

Analog Output

Analog Output Glitch

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multiplexer switches to channel 1 and the PGIA switches to a gain of 100,
the new full-scale range is ±50 mV.
The approximately 4 V step from 4 V to 1 mV is 4,000% of the new
full-scale range. It may take as long as 100 µs for the circuitry to settle to
1 LSB after such a large transition. In general, this extra settling time is not
needed when the PGIA is switching to a lower gain.
Settling times can also increase when scanning high-impedance signals
due to a phenomenon called charge injection, where the analog input
multiplexer injects a small amount of charge into each signal source when
that source is selected. If the impedance of the source is not low enough,
the effect of the charge—a voltage error—will not have decayed by the time
the ADC samples the signal. For this reason, keep source impedances under
1 k to perform high-speed scanning.
Due to the previously described limitations of settling times resulting from
these conditions, multiple-channel scanning is not recommended unless
sampling rates are low enough or it is necessary to sample several signals
as nearly simultaneously as possible. The data is much more accurate and
channel-to-channel independent if you acquire data from each channel
independently (for example, 100 points from channel 0, then 100 points
from channel 1, then 100 points from channel 2, and so on.)
(PCI-6025E and PCI-6024E Only)
These boards supply two channels of analog output voltage at the I/O
connector. The bipolar range is fixed at ±10 V. Data written to the
digital-to-analog converter (DAC) will be interpreted as two's complement
format.
In normal operation, a DAC output will glitch whenever it is updated with
a new value. The glitch energy differs from code to code and appears as
distortion in the frequency spectrum.
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