GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The AD9674 is designed for low cost, low power, small size, and ease of use for medical ultrasound. It contains eight channels of a VGA with an LNA, a CW harmonic rejection I/Q demodulator with programmable phase rotation, an AAF, an ADC, a digital HPF, and RF decimation by 2.
FEATURES
8 channels of LNA, VGA, AAF, ADC, and digital RF decimator
Low power: 150 mW per channel, TGC mode, 40 MSPS;
62.5 mW per channel, CW mode; <30 mW in power-down
Time gain compensation (TGC) channel input referred noise:
0.82 nV/√Hz, maximum gain
Flexible power-down modes
Fast recovery from low power standby mode: <2 μs
Low noise preamplifier (LNA)
Input referred noise voltage: 0.78 nV/√Hz, gain = 21.6 dB
Programmable gain: 15.6 dB/17.9 dB/21.6 dB
0.1 dB compression: 1.00 V p-p/
0.75 V p-p/0.45 V p-p
Flexible active input impedance matching
Variable gain amplifier (VGA)
Attenuator range: 45 dB, linear in dB gain control
Postamplifier gain (PGA): 21 dB/24 dB/27 dB/30 dB
Antialiasing filter (AAF)
Programmable second-order low-pass filter (LPF) from 8 MHz
to 18 MHz or 13.5 MHz to 30 MHz and high-pass filter (HPF)
Analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR): 75 dB, 14 bits up to 125 MSPS
Configurable serial low voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
Continuous wave (CW) Doppler mode harmonic rejection I/Q
demodulator
Individual programmable phase rotation
Dynamic range per channel: >160 dBFS/√Hz
Close in SNR: 156 dBc/√Hz, 1 kHz offset, −3 dBFS input
Radio frequency (RF) digital HPF and decimation by 2
10 mm × 10 mm, 144-ball CSP_BGA
APPLICATIONS
Medical imaging/ultrasound
Nondestructive Testing (NDT)