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Entry  Thu Dec 27 00:12:12 2012, Jinhong Wang, variation of sampling capacitors 
    Reply  Thu Dec 27 09:49:17 2012, Stefan Ritt, variation of sampling capacitors 
       Reply  Thu Dec 27 18:15:14 2012, Jinhong Wang, variation of sampling capacitors 
          Reply  Fri Feb 1 17:43:48 2013, Jinhong Wang, variation of sampling capacitors 
             Reply  Tue Feb 5 14:38:35 2013, Stefan Ritt, variation of sampling capacitors 
Message ID: 214     Entry time: Thu Dec 27 18:15:14 2012     In reply to: 213     Reply to this: 215
Author: Jinhong Wang 
Subject: variation of sampling capacitors 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Jinhong Wang wrote:

Hi Stefan,

A quick question, what is the typical variation of the sampling capacitors in DRS4?  Will this variation be significant to affect your sampling result?

 Best,

Jinhong 

The capacitors sample the input voltage, not the charge, so the actual size of the capacitors does not matter on first order (the variations might be in the order of 5%). A bigger effect is the variation of the analog switches in the front of the capacitors, which is about 15%. So the actual bandwidth each cell sees varies by maybe 20% (given by the R and the C), but this comes only into play when sampling steep edges.

Stefan

 Great to know this! Thanks~

Jinhong

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