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self designer New Member Offline Posts: 7	Taking FFT of a designed ADC Jan 06^th, 2016, 8:30am This image shows the analog output associated of 12-bit output code of a designed pipeline ADC, I've tried to take a FFT in Matlab but the result was wrong. Any suggestions?
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Ken Kundert Global Moderator Offline Posts: 2386 Silicon Valley	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2016, 9:00am I don't know what a FIT is, but I suspect you want to apply strobing before you generate the output that you send to Matlab. -Ken
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self designer New Member Offline Posts: 7	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2016, 9:26am Sorry, it is "FFT" actually.. It was a wrong auto correction keyboard issue.
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DanielLam Community Member Offline Posts: 76	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #3 - Jan 7^th, 2016, 11:32am Hi, I don't see the image. Could you attach it? Or is there something wrong on my end...
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self designer New Member Offline Posts: 7	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #4 - Jan 7^th, 2016, 2:10pm Sure, it's attached now.
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Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC
Reply #5 - Jan 7^th, 2016, 3:53pm

Hello

What is the input tone frequency and the sampling frequency? As Ken mentioned strobing is required to avoid interpolation errors. Also it is not clear if windowing is being used while FFT is computed. You might want to have a look at this link

http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1118555245

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Ken Kundert Global Moderator Offline Posts: 2386 Silicon Valley	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #6 - Jan 7^th, 2016, 9:24pm In this case the signal being analyzed is periodic and the the period is known, so windowing would not be used. -Ken
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ULPAnalog Community Member Offline Posts: 97	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #7 - Jan 7^th, 2016, 9:39pm Thank you for the clarification Ken. I just wanted to make sure that the record length encompassed an integer number of input cycles while FFT was taken.
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DanielLam Community Member Offline Posts: 76	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #8 - Jan 8^th, 2016, 8:43am Can you attach a picture of the sampled wave form (not the full transient waveform you attached earlier), and also the FFT of it? Are you coherently sampling? What is your Fin, Fs, number of points sampled, prime number? Thanks, Daniel Lam
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self designer New Member Offline Posts: 7	Re: �Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #9 - Jan 9^th, 2016, 1:56am Ken Kundert wrote on Jan 6^th, 2016, 9:00am: I suspect you want to apply strobing before you generate the output that you send to Matlab. -Ken How to apply strobing?
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self designer New Member Offline Posts: 7	Re: �Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #10 - Jan 9^th, 2016, 2:03am DanielLam wrote on Jan 8^th, 2016, 8:43am: Are you coherently sampling? What is your Fin, Fs, number of points sampled, prime number? Thanks, Daniel Lam Actually it's not a coherently sampling, Fs=40MHz, Fin=1MHz, 4096 Points. So, I'll try coherent sampling in forward. Thanks.
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Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC
Reply #11 - Jan 9^th, 2016, 11:08am

Hello

I would choose the input tone frequency in such a way that the ratio of it with sampling frequency is a prime number. The reason for the same are discussed in the link posted in one of my earlier replies.

Since you have not mentioned the simulator you are using, I presume that it is Spectre, in which case strobing is done by adding strobeperiod to transient analysis. If you are using ADE-L for simulations, you can find the option under transient analysis -> Options -> Output.

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self designer New Member Offline Posts: 7	Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC Reply #12 - Jan 9^th, 2016, 11:13am Hello, Thank You, I've used HSPICE, then imported simulation results to Matlab to do FFT.
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Reply #13 - Jan 9^th, 2016, 11:29am

It seems I haven't done good calculations for coherently sampling,
For Fs=40MHz for 12-bit ADC I've considered 8192 records and I assumed that 1 Mhz was my favorite, consequently, Nw=2048 then I choosed 2047 as a prime number finally input frequency that I reached was 9990239Hz. Also I made a new variable to skip ADC deadly at the beginning, to have periodic signal.
If I'm wrong, please let me know. Also please let me see what exactly code I should use.

Thanks everybody.

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Re: Taking FFT of a designed ADC
Reply #14 - Jan 10^th, 2016, 12:33am

For FFT to work well with a rectangular window (sometimes misinterpreted as no windowing), you need to coherent sample.

2047 is not a prime number.

Here is the formula, you should set your input frequency as
Fin = (Prime # * Fs) / Number of samples taken

In your case, you can try Fin = (5 * 40 MHz) / 8192
Here I chose the prime number 5, you should pick numbers ABOVE 3.

Also, if your circuit has transient effects, I would run the simulation a little longer and take the later 8192 pts. For example, run for 8500 pts, and take the last 8192.

Btw, you should be fine with perhaps a 256 or 512 pt FFT just to check functionality. So you can save simulation time.

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