EDN

Understand the differences between R2R and String DAC architectures

Since most engineers went through intensive course work in engineering school studying the analog-to-digital converter (ADC), operational amplifier (op amp), digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and ...
EDN

Trimming a digital-to-analog converter to improve accuracy

More and more of today’s modern industrial systems are requiring high accuracy. Traditionally, the test and measurement market has been the primary driver of highly accurate signal chain components, ...
Electronic Design

Flavored DACs for Every Application

DACs and Metrics1String DAC The easiest-to-understand architecture is based on a Kelvin divider. As shown in Figure 1, the output voltage is selected from the taps on a long string of equal-value ...
Electronic Design

Extract the Best AC Performance from Your Precision DAC

Sometimes it seems as though digital designers get all of the attention. In all of the excitement surrounding "gigaFLOPS," "22 nm," and such, there's still one crumb of comfort for we non-digital ...
Hackaday

digital to analog

How easy is it to build your own Digital to Analog Converter (DAC)? Although you can readily purchase a wide variety of DACs these days, building your own can be very instructive, as the [Sine Lab] on ...