mOBiTh Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hey guys Just wondering whether these 12bit ADCs from TI are a straight swap out with the Retrocade 8bit ones: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/adc128s102.pdf The 8bit ones are: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/adc088s102.pdf It's not a big deal at the moment for prototyping and the grove analogue block was written for 12 bit ADCs by the look of it (not sure why?), so I probably won't desolder the ones I have. However I thought when I get my own custom megawing built I could just swap these 12 bit ADCs straight in. Also, sometimes I get spurious 'crosstalk' between my ADC inputs but I'm not using all of them and the unused ones are currently floating unfortunately. Do you think the interference is likely the floating inputs or a dry solder joint (the situation tends to improve when I press on ADC0). I'm only using c0, c2, c4 and c6 of ADC0. Any thoughts? Cheers! Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Gassett Posted March 29, 2016 Report Share Posted March 29, 2016 Hey Matt, Yes, they are a straight swap from what I can recall. Jack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mOBiTh Posted March 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2016 Cool thanks Jack! Any idea about the ad noise/interference - is that expected behaviour? Cheers M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Gassett Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 What kind of crosstalk are you talking about? I don't remember seeing any crosstalk in my testing but the analog inputs are always jumping around. Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mOBiTh Posted April 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Basically the effect is that when I touch a pot connected on ADC2, say, ADC4 changes value. (ADC1 and 3 are unconnected). However I haven't grounded the unused ADC inputs (they're floating which apparently isn't recommended?) so that could well be the issue, but the issue seems to go away if I press the ADC IC. So maybe I should just resolder that part. Anyway, no big deal for now because I need to make a much bigger 16 pot input board this weekend to connect to the ADCs. Will see what happens when they're all in use. Thanks for your help! M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkarlsson Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 I don't know if this is the same issue but this subject was discussed a few years ago in this thread: http://forum.gadgetfactory.net/index.php?/topic/1889-ouch-retrocade-adc-tester/&do=findComment&comment=12803 Magnus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mOBiTh Posted April 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Ah yes, I remember reading that ages ago now... Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Gassett Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 I just featured and pinned that other post because it has such useful information in it. Jack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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