Reference voltages to ADCs of Picoscope3404A

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Reference voltages to ADCs of Picoscope3404A

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Hi

I have a Picoscope3404A unit. How do you know what will be the reference voltage to ADC of it. Suppose for channel A voltage range 0-5V and channel voltage range 0-5V. Please kindly explain how do I know reference voltages to ADCs of each channel?

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Re: Reference voltages to ADCs of Picoscope3404A

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Do you mean the ADC Count to Voltage conversion ?

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Voltage = ADCCount * inputRange /maxValue;

For your example
ADCCount = the reading you have
maxValue = 32512
inputRange = 5V
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Re: Reference voltages to ADCs of Picoscope3404A

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But Picoscope 3404A is 8bit DAQ? How this value 32512 came?

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Re: Reference voltages to ADCs of Picoscope3404A

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We use the most significant 8 bits of a 16bit value to represent the data for this scope, it helps to keep consistency across our range of products where we do have 12 and 16 bit devices. It is also more efficient for us when transferring data from the device to the driver.
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