CDB5516/CDB5520
Introduction
Evaluation Board Overview
The CDB5516/20 evaluation board provides a
means of testing the CS5516 and CS5520 bridge
transducer A/D converters. The board is de-
signed to be interfaced to a PC-compatible
computer via an RS-232 port. Software is sup-
plied with the board which provides control of
all registers in the CS5516 or the CS5520.
The board is configured to be operated from +5
and -5 volt power supplies. A bridge transducer
or a bridge transducer simulator is required if the
board is to be evaluated in the ratiometric oper-
ating mode.
Figure 1 illustrates the schematic of the bridge
driver and A/D converter portion of the circuit
board. The converter operates from a 4 MHz
crystal. This results in the converter outputting
conversion words at a 50 Sps rate. The board
comes configured to be interfaced to a bridge
transducer via the 6-pin transducer terminal
block. The sense lines on the transducer termi-
nal block provide the reference voltage for the
converter.
For absolute measurements, the user can connect
either an external reference voltage (up to 3.8
volts) to the reference terminal block or connect
the on-board 2.5 volt LT1019 reference as the
voltage reference for the converter.
EXC GND
+5VA
6
7
EXC
U3
EXC
5
3
MICREL
MIC4428
Q1
TP0610
+5VA
0.1µF C7
3
R1
10
C9
1 1µF 2
20
2
10k
R14
C20
4
C21
10k
+
R15
0.1µF 10 µF
100k
R13
VA+ MDRV+ MDRV- VD+
11
BX2
12
BX1
CS5516/20
XIN 22
0.1µF
C8
P1
SIG+
SIG-
SENSE+
SENSE-
-5VA
EXC+
EXC-
7.5k
R7
5.0k
R6
470pF
C16
7.5k
R4
P2 301 R5
C17 470pF
REF+
REF-
301
4.7nF C15
R3
301
R12
301
R11
1A
1B
2A
2B
C18
4.7nF
4.7nF
C19
6 AIN+
5 AGND1
8
AGND2
7
AIN-
9 VREF+
10 VREF-
VA-
4.000
MHz
XOUT 23
SMODE 24
18
SOD
17
SID
16
SCLK
15
DRDY
14
CS
13
RST
19
DGND
VD-
+5VA
C14
0.1µF
U5
50
LT1019-
2.5V
R8
0.1µF
-5VA
4
C11
0.1µF
R2
21
10
0.1µF
C10
C29
AGND DGND
10k
R17
100k
R16
OSCLK
SMODE
SOD
SID
To
Figure 2
SCLK
DRDY
CS
RST
J1
Figure 1. Bridge Driver and A/D Converter
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