Datasheet

AD9911
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I/O PORT
OVERVIEW
The AD9911 I/O port offers multiple configurations to provide
significant flexibility. The I/O port includes an SPI-compatible
mode of operation. Flexibility is provided by four data
(SDIO_0:3) pins supporting four programmable modes of I/O
operation.
Three of the four data pins (SDIO_1:3) can be used for
functions other than I/O port operation. These pins may be set
to initiate a ramp-up or ramp-down (RU/RD) of the 10-bit
amplitude output scalar. One of these pins (SDIO_3) may be
used to provide the SYNC_I/O function.
The maximum speed of the I/O port SCLK is 200 MHz. The
maximum data throughput of 800 Mbps is achieved by using all
SDIO_0:3 pins.
There are four sets of addresses (0x03 to 0x18) that channel
enable bits can access to provide channel independence when
using the auxiliary DDS cores for either test-tone generation or
spur killing. See the
Control Register Descriptions section for
further discussion of programming channels that are common
or independent from one another.
I/O operation of the AD9911 occurs at the register level, not the
byte level; the controller expects that all byte(s) contained in the
register address are accessed. The SYNC_I/O function can be
used to abort an I/O operation, thereby not allowing all bytes to
be accessed. This feature can be used to program only a part of
the addressed register. Note that only completed bytes are
stored.
There are two phases to a communications cycle. The first is the
instruction phase, which writes the instruction byte into the
AD9911. Each bit of the instruction byte is registered on each
corresponding rising edge of SCLK. The instruction byte
defines whether the upcoming data transfer is a write or read
operation and contains the serial address of the address register.
Phase 2 of the I/O cycle is of the data transfer (write/read)
between the I/O port controller and the I/O port buffer. The
number of bytes transferred during this phase of the communi-
cation cycle is a function of the register being accessed. The
actual number of additional SCLK rising edges required for the
data transfer and instruction byte depends on the number of
byte(s) in the register and the I/O mode of operation.
For example, when accessing Function Register 1, (FR1), which
is three bytes wide, Phase 2 of the I/O cycle requires that three
bytes are transferred. After transferring all data bytes per the
instruction byte, the communication cycle is complete.
Upon completion of a communication cycle, the AD9911 I/O
port controller expects the next set of rising SCLK edges to be
the instruction byte for the next communication cycle. Data
writes occur on the rising edge of SCLK. Data reads occur on
the falling edge of SCLK. See
Figure 43 and Figure 44.
An I/O_UPDATE transfers data from the I/O port buffer to
active registers. The I/O_UPDATE can either be sent for each
communication cycle or when all I/O operations are complete.
Data remains inactive until an I/O_UPDATE is sent, with the
exception of the channel enable bits in the Channel Select
Register (CSR). These bits require no I/O_UPDATE to be
enabled.
t
PRE
t
DSU
t
SCLK
t
SCLKPWL
t
SCLKPWH
t
DHLD
CS
SCLK
SDIO
SYMBOL DEFINITION
t
PRE
CS SETUP TIME
t
SCLK
PERIOD OF SERIAL DATA CLOCK
t
SCLKPWH
SERIAL DATA SETUP TIME
t
SCLKPWL
SERIAL DATA CLOCK PULSE WIDTH HIGH
t
DHLD
SERIAL DATA CLOCK PULSE WIDTH LOW
t
DSU
SERIAL DATA HOLD TIME
MIN
1.0ns
2.2ns
5.0ns
2.2ns
1.6ns
0ns
0
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Figure 48. Set-Up and Hold Timing for the I/O Port
t
DV
t
DV
CS
SCLK
SDIO
SDO (SDIO_2)
SYMBOL DEFINITION MIN
DATA VALID TIME 12ns
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Figure 49. Timing Diagram for Data Read for I/O Port
INSTRUCTION BYTE DESCRIPTION
The instruction byte contains the information displayed in
Table 22 where x = don’t care.
Table 22.
MSB D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 LSB
R/Wb x x A4 A3 A2 A1 A0