CS5376
3. SYSTEM DESIGN
System issues to consider when designing with the
CS5376 include power supply voltages, distribu-
tion of clock and synchronization signals, connec-
tions for EEPROM reprogramming, connections
for boundary scan testing, and extra circuitry re-
quired for functional tests.
3.1 Power Supply Voltages
The CS5376 has three sets of power supply inputs.
Two sets supply power to the I/O pins of the chip
(VDD1, VDD2), and the third set supplies power to
the logic core (VD). The I/O pin power supplies de-
termine the maximum input and output voltages
when interfacing to peripherals, and the logic core
power supply determines the power consumption
of the CS5376.
The voltage choice for a specific power supply de-
pends on two considerations.
1) Available voltages.
It’s simpler to drive all power supplies from a sin-
gle 5 V or 3.3 V supply if it’s already available in
the design. This reduces system cost by eliminating
additional voltage regulators. Power sensitive ap-
plications, however, will require a 3 V supply into
the logic core to minimize power consumption.
2) Required interface voltages.
The two I/O pin power supplies are separated into
a ‘modulator side’ and a ‘microcontroller side’. If
some elements in the design are specified to inter-
face at 5 V and other elements in the design are
specified to interface at another voltage, 3.3 V for
example, the I/O pin power supplies can be inde-
pendently driven to match.
VDD1, GND1 - Pins 54, 53
This I/O pin power supply sets the interface voltage
to the microcontroller, communications channel,
and related peripherals.
Pins driven by the VDD1 power supply are:
• RESET, BOOT, CLK, SYNC, TIMEB
• SSI, SCK1, MOSI, MISO, SINT, SSO
• SDTKI, SDRDY, SDCLK, SDDAT, SDTKO
• GPIO6 - GPIO11
• TRST, TMS, TCK, TDI, TDO
VDD2, GND2 - Pins 11, 25, 24, 38
This I/O pin power supply sets the interface voltage
to the modulators, test DAC, and related peripher-
als.
Pins driven by the VDD2 power supply are:
• MDATA1 - MDATA4, MFLAG1 - MFLAG4
• MCLK, MCLK/2, MSYNC
• SCK2, SI1 - SI4, SO
• TBSCLK, TBSDATA
• GPIO0 - GPIO5
VD, GND - Pins 7, 40, 6, 23, 39
This power supply sets the operational voltage for
the CS5376 logic core. Lowering this voltage to
3 V will minimize power consumption.
3.1.1 Bypass Capacitors
All power supply pins should be bypassed to pro-
vide noise immunity. The bypass capacitors should
be placed as close as possible to the pins of the
CS5376, between the power supply pin and its as-
sociated ground. Suggested values for bypass ca-
pacitors are two parallel caps of 1 µF and 0.01 µF,
or a single cap of 0.1 µF. Bypass capacitors can be
ceramic, tantalum, or any other dielectric type.
3.2 Clock and Synchronization Signals
Many applications of the CS5376 will use a multi-
channel distributed measurement network. To be
useful, data collection must occur with synchro-
nous timing between the measurement channels.
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