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- Building a DSP board, Part Five: Power supply considerations
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- This is the fifth in a series on how I went about building
- a dual Motorola DSP56000 sampling board.
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- There is a lot of hype these days about using separate power
- supplies in CD players. I tend to believe this theory. Digital
- signals are very demanding of power regulators. I have a feeling
- that most power regulators can't react fast enough to prevent
- a transient current drain from creating a voltage drop in the
- regulator. This will appear as a little AC signal floating on
- top of the power supply voltage. If this gets into your analog
- power supply, it will modulate itself with whatever analog signal
- you are processing, causing some distortion.
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- In my power supply design, I needed a +/- 15V supply (I wanted to use
- 12V, but my S/H required 15V) and a +/- 5V supply for the analog section
- (I consider the 5V needed for my A/D digital part as part of the analog
- section) which consists of the analog filters (+/- 15V), the S/H (+/- 15V),
- the A/D (+/- 15V and +5V), and the D/A (+/- 5V). I needed a separate +5V
- for the digital section, consisting of the DSP chip, the SRAM, the EPROM,
- glue logic, crystal and dividers, and the SM5805. I didn't have to worry
- about nasty digital hash sneaking into my analog supply since all of the
- clocking information for the serial A/D is provided by the SM5805, which
- runs off of a separate +5V supply.
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- I added up all the power requirements of each chip, and rounded up generously.
- The final design consists of 12.6V five amp center tap (of which I use
- one side of the tap for 6.3V) and a four amp 28V center tap (I use
- both sides for a bipolar supply). I rectify the voltage off both
- transformers, smooth it out to 8.9V and +/- 19.8V via 22,000 and
- 4700 uF caps, and put a 3 amp +5V regulator on the former and
- the +15V, +5V, -5V, and -15V on appropriate positions on the later.
- The digital supply got a 3A fuse and the analog supplies got 1A fuses.
- (Make sure you fuse them... I've blown more than one!) Then, I hooked
- the center tap of the analog supply to the ground digital supply for
- a common ground. Oh yeah, don't forget to bypass the regulators with
- 10 uF tantalum caps to prevent oscillations!
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- Of course, if you don't like building ugly beasts and want a nice
- protected power supply in a nice case, it might be worth the money
- (and it is a lot of money) to go buy a 3A/24V bipolar regulated
- power supply.
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- Next: How the SM5805 will drive the board
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