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Buffer adapts single ended signals for differential inputs - 09/02/04 EDN-Design Ideas: DC coupling of single-ended signals into differential-input, single-supply ADCs can be challenging. The input signal requires level shifting from ground to VS/2 as well as single-ended-to-differential conversion. In addition, you must balance the differential inputs of the ADC to cancel even-order harmonics and common-mode noise.....(design idea added 1/05)

Build Precise S/H Amps for Fast 12-Bit ADCs - AN-271 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 6/06)

Cascode Circuit Lessens DAC Degradation - 02/03/97 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 3/03)

Centronics Port D/A converters & low-pass filter - (design circuit added 8/02)

Choosing DACs for Direct Digital Synthesis - AN-237-Analog Device Application Notes  (app note added 6/06) 

Circuit Applications of Multiplying CMOS D to a Converters - National Semiconductor Application Note  (app note added 2/06)

Circuit Applications of the AD7226 Quad CMOS DAC - AN-317 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

Circuit compensates system offset of a load cell based balance - 08/16/07 EDN-Design Ideas: A dual DAC stores the system-offset voltage, which gets determined during a power-on calibration sequence.....(design idea added 09/07)

Circuit converts DAC's outputs from single ended to differential mode - 06/08/06 EDN-Design Ideas: This design suits low-end ac applications or high-precision level-setting applications that rely on a single-ended current-output DAC.....(design idea added 10/06)

Circuit Loads Eight Channel DAC from PC Port  - 08/03/95 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 2/06)

CMOS D/A Converters Match Most Microprocessors - National Semiconductor Application Note 04 Nov1995 / (app note added 7/02)

CMOS DACs act as Digitally controlled voltage dividers - 06/26/08 EDN-Design Ideas: You can employ a DAC to operate as a digitally programmable resistor from a single supply.....(design idea added 09/08)

CMOS Multiplying DAC Based Panning Circuit Provides Almost Constant Output Power - AN-206 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)  Audio signal processing sometimes requires splitting or "panning" a single signal source into multiple channels. This application note describes how CMOS M-DACs can control the relative signal levels of the derived channels.

CMOS Multiplying DACs & Op Amps Combine to Build Programmable Gain Amplifier, Part 1 - AN-320B Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

Combine Two 8 Bit Outputs to Make One 16 Bit Dac - 09/30/04 EDN-Design Ideas: Inexpensive, 16-bit, monolithic DACs can serve almost all applications. However, some applications require unconventional approaches. This Design Idea design concerns circuitry I recently designed for a tunable-diode laser spectrometer for a Mars-exploration application. The control circuitry included two 16-bit DACs.....(design idea added 5/05)

Companion Code AN-759  - AN-759 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

Comparator/ DAC Combinations Solve Data Acquisition Problems - Maxim Application Notes / 647 / Oct-04  (app note added 5/08)

Control 32 DAC Channels via a Parallel Port - 07/08/99 EDN-Design Ideas: [Note: File contains multiple circuits.  Scroll to find this one.]  Occasionally, a system needs several digitally programmable voltage-output channels. Such output channels typically provide the control for robot positioning, industrial processes, and even home automation. The circuit in Figure 1 controls 32 voltage-output channels from the parallel port of a PC. The circuit comprises eight DAC7615 quad voltage-output, serial-data programmable, 12-bit DACs. The controlling PC individually programs each of the 32 DAC channels, and all DAC outputs simultaneously update.....(design idea added 11/05)

Control Applications of CMOS DACs - National Semiconductor Application Note  (app note added 2/06)

Coupling a Single-Ended Clock Source to the Differential Clock Input of Third-Generation TxDAC® & TxDAC+® Products - AN-642 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

D/ A Converter Generates Multiple Precision Outputs - Maxim Application Notes / 30 / Jan-05  (app note added 5/08)

D/A Conversion using PWM & R-2r Ladders to Generate Sine & DTMF Waveforms - Microchip Application Note Published 26-Aug-97  (app note added 2/06)

D/A Converter ASIC uses Stochastic Logic - 10/24/96 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 3/03)

D/A Converter Generates Hyperbolic Functions - AN-23 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

DAC & µP Implement Hardware Window Generator - 03/31/94 EDN-Design Ideas: A typical DSP system first converts an analog signal to digital, then performs windowing, and finally does a fast-Fourier transform. However, you can accelerate this process by swapping the converting and windowing steps and implementing the windowing in hardware. The multiplying DAC in Fig 1 performs the windowing of an input signal.....(design idea added 03/03/03)

DAC & flip flops form constant current source - 04/23/09 EDN- Design Ideas,  Using two flip flops, you can program a serial-input DAC to produce a constant 4 mA.....(design idea added 08/09)

DAC & Op Amp Generate Variable Negative Control Voltage - Maxim Application Notes / 107)4 / Feb-05  (app note added 5/08)

DAC & OpAmp Provide Variable Control Voltage - 12/06/01 EDN-Design Ideas: Early DACs contained standard R-2R ladder networks, and produced a negative output voltage. These early DACs, such as the MAX7837/7847 and the MAX523, require both positive and negative supply rails to accommodate their negative output. With the transition to single-supply ICs, however, many modern DACs operate with a single supply rail and an inverted R-2R ladder network.....(design idea added 6/06)

DAC calibrates 4  to 20 mA output current - 06/25/09 EDN- Design Ideas,  When your design requires self-calibration, this circuit will perform the task.....(design idea added 08/09)

DAC ICs: How Many Bits Is Enough? - AN-327 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 6/06)

DAC Powered Charge Pump Varies Negative Rail - Maxim Application Note #203 (app note added 02/05)

DAC/ µP Supervisor Combination Improves Analog I/ O Reliability - Maxim Application Notes / 353 / Mar-05  (app note added 5/08)

DAC08 Applications Collection - AN-17 Analog Devices App Notes  (app note added 2/06)

DC accurate 32 bit DAC achieves 32 bit resolution - 10/30/08 EDN-Design Ideas: ,  A DAC circuit sums two 16-bit PWM signals via solid-state switches to achieve 32-bit resolution.....(design idea added 08/09)

DDS IC Plus Frequency to Voltage Converter Make Low Cost Dac - 02/05/04 EDN-Design Ideas: Precision DACs are essential in many consumer, industrial, and military applications, but high-resolution DACs can be costly. Frequency-to-voltage converters have good nonlinearity specifications—typically, 0.002% for the AD650—and are inherently monotonic. This Design Idea shows how you can use a frequency-to-voltage converter and a DDS (direct-digital-synthesizer)chip for precise.....  You can effectively double the sample rate of a DAC by interleaving two DACs into a single unit. Updating each DAC on an alternating basis and switching to the appropriate output double the effective throughput of the overall system. It is essential to overall performance that you use a high-quality, high-speed switch in the multiplexing of the DACs' outputs. (added 10/05)

Deglitching Techniques for High Voltage R 2R DACs - Maxim Application Notes / 583 / Jun-05  (app note added 5/08)

Design & Layout of a Video Graphics System for Reduced EMI - AN-333 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

Designing High Current Chokes is Easy - 06/24/04 EDN-Design Ideas: Somewhat unusually, this Design Idea deals with a formula rather than a circuit. You might think that all the basic formulas of magnetic phenomena were discovered more than a century ago. In fact, they probably were, but, at the time, some were of little practical interest and were essentially disregarded and never included in books or formula tables.....(design idea added 02/05)

Designing High Current Vrm Compliant CPU Power Supplies - 10/26/00 EDN-Design Ideas: Modern high-speed microprocessors require fast delivery of enormous supply currents in microsecond time frames, tight supply-voltage tolerance, and intelligent voltage programming. The latest CPU voltage-regulator specifications from Intel and AMD call for load-current slew rates of 50 to 200A/µsec and peak currents of 60 to more than 120A. These demands are transforming the design of portable power supplies to levels almost like those of utility power. The core supply voltage of the CPU must remain within its specified tolerance even when the processor performs a current-load step from nearly 0 to more than 60A in a few microseconds. This process requires a proper design approach and knowledge of advanced power.....(design idea added 5/05)

Differential & Multiplying D/A Converter Applications - AN-19 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

Digital Analog Converters Are a Bit Analog - Maxim Application Notes / 1055 / Sep-05  (app note added 5/08)

Digital to Analog Centronics D/A & Filter - (design circuit added 8/02)

Digitally Programmable Gain & Attenuation Amplifier Design - AN-137 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 2/06)

Double DAC Rate by using Mixers as Switches - 02/05/04 EDN-Design Ideas: You can effectively double the sample rate of a DAC by interleaving two DACs into a single unit. Updating each DAC on an alternating basis and switching to the appropriate output double the effective throughput of the overall system. It is essential to overall performance that you use a high-quality, high-speed switch in the multiplexing of the DACs' outputs.....(design idea added 1/05)

DPPs Make Nonvolatile MicroVolt DAC - 10/31/02 EDN-Design Ideas: The availability of a seemingly limitless variety of monolithic DAC chips makes it easy to implement most digital-to-analog-conversion applications with a single off-the-shelf device. Sometimes, an unusual set of requirements necessitates a multichip approach, however. One example of such a requirement is the need for nonvolatility of the DAC's.....(design idea added 02/05)

DSP chip yields high speed D/A Conversion - 09/01/95 EDN-Design Ideas: (design idea added 2/06)

Dual, Voltage Output DAC Consumes Miniscule Power - Maxim Application Notes / 111 / Jan-06  (app note added 5/08)


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