[time-nuts] uC ADC resolution (was: Poor man's oven)
Bob kb8tq
kb8tq at n1k.org
Sat Jun 10 17:04:04 EDT 2017
Hi
> On Jun 10, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
>
>> --------
>>
>> Delta-Sigma strategies for spreading the noise-spectrum are
>> interesting, but will not save you if the required heater power
>> ends up being a small rational fraction (1/2, 1/3, 1/4 ...) of the
>> full scale.
>>
>
> How many output bits are required? Most uPs have quite a few digital
> output pins. Each pin could drive a heater resister. Values of the
> resisters organized by power of two. Again note the title (poor mans...)
> resisters cost almost zero. Even of driver transistors are needed you'd
> get change back from a dollar bill.
If you believe that you have a “background” TC of 1x10^-8 / C (for a variety of reasons), that
will drive a few things. For right now simply take it as another arbitrary parameter, just like
the +/- 0.1C we started with.
If you want the controller noise to *not* be the limiting factor at an ADEV floor of 1x10^-12,
that drives you to a noise floor of < 0.1 mK. You can then work through the various thermal
gains to come up with a level of DAC bits that you need. You could equally as well decide
on a 1x10^-13 floor and / or might have a 1x10^-9 sensitivity.
Bob
>
> The reason I ask "how many bits" is because the above is reasonable with 4
> to 6 effective bits but not reasonable with 24
>
> I say "effective" because we can dither the low order bits to gain maybe 6
> effective bits form 4 real bits (we can filter the switching noise from a
> low frequency dither)
>
> --
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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