TLC1549C, TLC1549I, TLC1549M
10-BIT ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS
WITH SERIAL CONTROL
SLAS059C – DECEMBER 1992 – REVISED MARCH 1995
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POST OFFICE BOX 655303 • DALLAS, TEXAS 75265
Terminal Functions
TERMINAL
NAME NO.
ANALOG IN 2 I Analog signal input. The driving source impedance should be ≤ 1 kΩ. The external driving source to ANALOG IN
should have a current capability ≥ 10 mA.
CS 5 I Chip select. A high-to-low transition on CS resets the internal counters and controls and enables DATA OUT and
I/O CLOCK within a maximum of a setup time plus two falling edges of the internal system clock. A low-to-high
transition disables I/O CLOCK within a setup time plus two falling edges of the internal system clock.
DATA OUT 6 O This 3-state serial output for the A/D conversion result is in the high-impedance state when CS is high and active
when CS
is low. With a valid chip select, DATA OUT is removed from the high-impedance state and is driven to
the logic level corresponding to the MSB value of the previous conversion result. The next falling edge of I/O
CLOCK drives DATAOUT to the logic level corresponding to the next most significant bit, and the remaining bits
are shifted out in order with the LSB appearing on the ninth falling edge of I/O CLOCK. On the tenth falling edge
of I/O CLOCK, DATA OUT is driven to a low logic level so that serial interface data transfers of more than ten clocks
produce zeroes as the unused LSBs.
GND 4 The ground return for internal circuitry. Unless otherwise noted, all voltage measurements are with respect to GND.
I/O CLOCK 7 I Input/output clock. I/O CLOCK receives the serial I/O CLOCK input and performs the following three functions:
1) On the third falling edge of I/O CLOCK, the analog input voltage begins charging the capacitor array and
continues to do so until the tenth falling edge of I/O CLOCK.
2) It shifts the nine remaining bits of the previous conversion data out on DATA OUT.
3) It transfers control of the conversion to the internal state controller on the falling edge of the tenth clock.
REF+ 1 I The upper reference voltage value (nominally V
CC
) is applied to REF+. The maximum input voltage range is
determined by the difference between the voltage applied to REF+ and the voltage applied to REF–.
REF– 3 I The lower reference voltage value (nominally ground) is applied to REF –.
V
CC
8 Positive supply voltage
detailed description
With chip select (CS) inactive (high), I/O CLOCK is initially disabled and DATA OUT is in the high impedance
state. When the serial interface takes CS
active (low), the conversion sequence begins with the enabling of I/O
CLOCK and the removal of DATA OUT from the high-impedance state. The serial interface then provides the
I/O CLOCK sequence to I/O CLOCK and receives the previous conversion result from DATA OUT. I/O CLOCK
receives an input sequence that is between 10 and 16 clocks long from the host serial interface. The first ten
I/O clocks provide the control timing for sampling the analog input.
There are six basic serial interface timing modes that can be used with the TLC1549. These modes are
determined by the speed of I/O CLOCK and the operation of CS
as shown in Table 1. These modes are (1) a
fast mode with a 10-clock transfer and CS
inactive (high) between transfers, (2) a fast mode with a 10-clock
transfer and CS
active (low) continuously, (3) a fast mode with an 11- to 16-clock transfer and CS inactive (high)
between transfers, (4) a fast mode with a 16-bit transfer and CS
active (low) continuously, (5) a slow mode with
an 11- to 16-clock transfer and CS
inactive (high) between transfers, and (6) a slow mode with a 16-clock transfer
and CS
active (low) continuously.
The MSB of the previous conversion appears on DATA OUT on the falling edge of CS
in mode 1, mode 3, and
mode 5, within 21 µs from the falling edge of the tenth I/O CLOCK in mode 2 and mode 4, and following the
sixteenth clock falling edge in mode 6. The remaining nine bits are shifted out on the next nine falling edges of
I/O CLOCK. Ten bits of data are transmitted to the host serial interface through DATA OUT. The number of serial
clock pulses used also depends on the mode of operation, but a minimum of ten clock pulses is required for
conversion to begin. On the tenth clock falling edge, the internal logic takes DATA OUT low to ensure that the
remaining bit values are zero if the I/O CLOCK transfer is more than ten clocks long.
Table 1 lists the operational modes with respect to the state of CS
, the number of I/O serial transfer clocks that
can be used, and the timing on which the MSB of the previous conversion appears at the output.