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Folding Effect: Choosing ADC Input Frequency to Observe Unwanted Tones
Jun 08th, 2023, 12:22am
 
Hi,

I know that we choose the ADC input frequency slightly lower than half of the sampling frequency so that all unwanted tones (mainly input harmonics) fold down to the main band (0 to Fs/2). But I cannot make sense of it. How does a frequency slightly less than Fs/2 help fold the unwanted tone back to the band of interest in comparison to input frequencies much lower than Fs/2?

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Re: Folding Effect: Choosing ADC Input Frequency to Observe Unwanted Tones
Reply #1 - Jun 9th, 2023, 5:15pm
 
Is it because distortion increases with the input signal frequency?
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