06-22-2012 01:47 PM
Dear all,
In my application, I want to filter the high frequency noise and then amplifier. so i will insert a low pass filter and a amplifier before input the signal to ADC. However, I found the commercial avaliable amplifier is 10k-500Mhz,(it is difficult to find a amplifier with band frequency DC-250KhZ). I want to know if I connect this amplifier after the low pass filter (DC-250kHZ), will it make trouble? The frequency range of signal is about DC-200kHZ.
Thank you!
06-22-2012 02:45 PM
In principle it should not cause a problem. The biggest issue is that anything which gets into the amplifier input after the filter will go to the ADC. As long as you do not have a lot of high frequency interference (such as nearby radio transmitters) and you use good wiring practice (shielded cables), you should be OK.
Any interferring signals above the Nyquist frequency (half the sampling frequency) which get through the amplifier will be aliased into the sampled data and you cannot remove them by post processing. If there is any possibility of such interference, try to run some tests with no desired signal or very clean, precisely known desired signals and look for any aliasing or interference.
Lynn