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how to isolate the analog and digital? opto-coupler or rf isolator?

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Hi,
Now, In my design, there are 16 ADCs and an FPGA, the FPGA controls the ADCs and receives the data from these ADCs.
Besides the FPGA, there are other digital circuits(DSP, SDRAM), in other words, the digital section is very noisy.
Also, there RF amplifier and RF switch on the analog section.

I plan to isolate the ADCs from Digital sections. I have two options,

(1) opto-couplers from Avago, ACSL-6210/6400.

(1) RF isolaters from Silicon Lab, Si8460.

I am very hard to make a decide now, which one is better?
Thank you very much.
yakex
 

Do you have seperate returns (gnds) for analog and digital ? I would go with optical. Why ad rf noise to an already noisey circuit.
 
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Do you have seperate returns (gnds) for analog and digital ? I would go with optical. Why ad rf noise to an already noisey circuit.

Thank you.
I agree with you.

---------- Post added at 02:32 ---------- Previous post was at 02:31 ----------

Do you have seperate returns (gnds) for analog and digital ? I would go with optical. Why ad rf noise to an already noisey circuit.

Yes, there are seperate returns for analog parts and digital parts
 

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