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AD7660

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MICROPROCESSOR INTERFACING

The AD7660 is ideally suited for traditional dc measurement

applications supporting a microprocessor, and ac signal pro-

cessing applications interfacing to a digital signal processor.

The AD7660 is designed to interface either with a parallel 16-

bit-wide interface or with a general purpose serial port or I/O

ports on a microcontroller. A variety of external buffers can be

used with the AD7660 to prevent digital noise from coupling

into the ADC. The following sections illustrate the use of the

AD7660 with an SPI equipped microcontroller, the ADSP-

21065L and ADSP-218x signal processors.

SPI Interface (MC68HC11)

Figure 21 shows an interface diagram between the AD7660 and

an SPI-equipped microcontroller like the MC68HC11. To

accommodate the slower speed of the microcontroller, the

AD7660 acts as a slave device and data must be read after

conversion. This mode also allows the “daisy chain” feature.

The convert command could be initiated in response to an

internal timer interrupt. The reading of output data, one byte

at a time, if necessary, could be initiated in response to the

end-of-conversion signal (BUSY going low) using an interrupt

line of the microcontroller. The Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

on the MC68HC11 is configured for master mode (MSTR) = 1,

Clock Polarity Bit (CPOL) = 0, Clock Phase Bit (CPHA) = 1

and SPI interrupt enable (SPIE) = 1 by writing to the SPI Control

Register (SPCR). The IRQ is configured for edge-sensitive-only

operation (IRQE = 1 in OPTION register).

IRQ

MC68HC11*

CNVST

AD7660*

BUSY

CS

MISO/SDI

SCK

I/O PORT

SDOUT

SCLK

INVSCLK

EXT/

INT

DVDD

*ADDITIONAL PINS OMITTED FOR CLARITY

OVDD

SER/

PAR

RD

Figure 21. Interfacing the AD7660 to SPI Interface

ADSP-21065L in Master Serial Interface

As shown in Figure 22, the AD7660 can be interfaced to the

ADSP-21065L using the serial interface in master mode with-

out any glue logic required. This mode combines the advantages

to reduce the wire connections and to be able to read the data

during or after conversion at user convenience.

The AD7660 is configured for the internal clock mode (EXT/

INT

low) and acts, therefore, as the master device. The convert com-

mand can be generated by either an external low jitter oscillator

or, as shown, by a FLAG output of the ADSP-21065L or by a

frame output TFS of one serial port of the ADSP-21065L which

can be used like a timer. The serial port on the ADSP-21065L is

configured for external clock (IRFS = 0), rising edge active

(CKRE = 1), external late framed sync signals (IRFS = 0,

LAFS = 1, RFSR = 1) and active high (LRFS = 0). The serial

port of the ADSP-21065L is configured by writing to its receive

control register (SRCTL)—see ADSP-2106x SHARC User’s

Manual. Because the serial port, within the ADSP-21065L will

be seeing a discontinuous clock, an initial word reading has to

be done after the ADSP-21065L has been reset to ensure that

the serial port is properly synchronized to this clock during each

following data read operation.

RFS

ADSP-21065L*

SHARC

CNVST

AD7660*

CS

SYNC

RD

DR

RCLK

FLAG OR TFS

SDOUT

SCLK

INVSYNC

INVSCLK

EXT/

INT

RDC/SDIN

SER/

PAR

DVDD

*ADDITIONAL PINS OMITTED FOR CLARITY

OVDD

OR

OGND

Figure 22. Interfacing to the ADSP-21065L Using the

Serial Master Mode

SDOUT

CS, RD

SCLK

D1

D0

X

D15

D14

D13

12

3

14

15

16

CNVST

BUSY

EXT/I

NT = 1

INVSCLK = 0

Figure 20. Slave Serial Data Timing for Reading (Read Previous Conversion During Convert)