Hi,
I've got an SDFM configured with DOSR = 16 and SINC1. According to the datasheet the acceptable range of values for this configuration is -16 <= value <= 16. Very rarely I get some data that is outside this range (usually a very high or very low number approaching or just exceeding 2^16 (65535)).
In a few short tests (a minute or less of sampling at 20 MHz) this happened as often as 0.5% of the time (longer tests yielded fewer outliers). Although this is not a very large number of occurrences I would very much appreciate insight as to why this might be happening, or how I might mitigate it. Is this behavior indicative of some other condition? Can I safely ignore the reading when it is such an outlier?
The datasheet seemed to indicate that certain SINC types needed some setup time, but that SINC1 did not have any leading bad samples. Is there some setup time that I need to account for?
Thanks!
Edit: Response prompted me to check our data input rates and it seems this may have been the cause. I'm not sure why it would have been an issue but decreasing our data rate eliminated the odd values that were observed.