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ADS1115-Q1: Internal reference accuracy is not published. How to calculate the accuracy?

Part Number: ADS1115-Q1
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: ADS1115

The ADS1115 is an interesting part with a large PGA range and the internal reference.  I am having difficulty understanding the overall accuracy of the part.  I can not find an accuracy specification for the internal reference.  There are lots of LSB and PPM/°C numbers for the various INL, gain and offset parameters.  Trying to sum these numbers up, I get something like 0.5% over 100C temperature range.  There is also a graph (Figure 19 on page 8) that provides a total error vs. input signal.  This looks like a maximum of 0.14%, but apparently doesn't include temperature variation.  Is the reference voltage offset and drift included in this graph and the table of INL, gain and offset error rates?  If anyone knows of an application note that would point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

  • Hi Timothy,

    I don't know of any piece of collateral for the ADS1x15 and the internal reference but to by best of my knowledge, the internal reference error is included in the overall gain error. Please refer to the following E2E post

    Regards,
    Aaron Estrada

  • Hello Aaron,

    You nailed it.  There is a footnote on the gain error numbers indicating it includes the reference error.  I missed it.  Also, they post you linked was very helpful.  I guess I need to go back to search engine school and re-learn how to use search engines!  Thanks for you help.

    Regads,

    Tim Dunn

  • Hi Tim,

    No worries :-)

    I'll admit, the E2E search engine isn't the greatest but Google's isn't that bad... If you type site:e2e.ti.com "topic"  (remove the " " and input what you're looking for) you can find quite a lot on E2E using google. Either way, glad to be able to clear this up for you!

    Regards,
    Aaron Estrada