DAC resolution vs. smoothing filter cutoff-freq

Started by vkj in sci.electronics.design11 years ago 8 replies
DAC

Usually the smoothing filter after the DAC is supposed to have a cut-off freq.

Usually the smoothing filter after the DAC is supposed to have a cut-off freq.


A lowpass filter for a DAC

Started by Peter in sci.electronics.design2 years ago 25 replies

Hi All, I am trying to work out the likely phase lag for a lowpass filter whose job is to take out the notches from a DAC. The DAC is 12...

Hi All, I am trying to work out the likely phase lag for a lowpass filter whose job is to take out the notches from a DAC. The DAC is 12 bit and will be generating a 400Hz sinewave. It will be driven at around 250x i.e. 100kHz. So the fundamental to filter out will be 100kHz. I am not good at maths but doing some digging around, it looks like a simple RC has a 45 deg phase shift at th...


Direct digital synthesis of square waves

Started by Anthony William Sloman in sci.electronics.design9 months ago 140 replies

It strikes me that John Larkin's original idea of synthesising trapezoids can be made to work. You would still use a fast 14- or 16 bit DAC,...

It strikes me that John Larkin's original idea of synthesising trapezoids can be made to work. You would still use a fast 14- or 16 bit DAC, but the waveform you fed into your comparator would be made up of four sequential components - all coming out of the DAC - high segment of arbitrary length, a falling edge, a low segment, and a risng edge With a 14-bit DAC - the LTC2000 c


dac architecture

Started by John Larkin in sci.electronics.design4 years ago 35 replies

We were talking about TCXOs. One measures temperature and drives a varicap through some nonlinear transfer function to get minumum net TC. We...

We were talking about TCXOs. One measures temperature and drives a varicap through some nonlinear transfer function to get minumum net TC. We don't want a digital design (ADC, lookup table or polynomial, DAC) because that might add phase noise. I guess you could use a static polynomial with the equivalent of nonvolatile DPOTS as the coefficients. This occurred to me, not as anything p...


strange DAC

Started by Anonymous in sci.electronics.design1 year ago 17 replies

I need an isolated DAC. I could just generate a PWM thing, isolate it, and lowpass filter on the high side. But we could also generate...

I need an isolated DAC. I could just generate a PWM thing, isolate it, and lowpass filter on the high side. But we could also generate a delta-sigma bit stream, which has advantages. If d-s, I might want to reclock it before lowpass filtering to get clean, fast edges. But then I could drive several d-flops. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0d7x6l6isyoldva/ML_DS_Dac.jpg?raw=1 The analog signal...


DDS questions

Started by John Larkin in sci.electronics.design10 months ago 112 replies

To make a programmable-frequency clock, the usual DDS chip has A frequency-set register, N=32 or 48 bits or something which adds, every...

To make a programmable-frequency clock, the usual DDS chip has A frequency-set register, N=32 or 48 bits or something which adds, every clock, to a phase accumulator M most-significant bits of that goes into a sine lookup table Which clocks D bits into a DAC Which drives a lowpass filter and a comparator. (Ignoring DAC quantization and zero-order hold, this is the tail end o...


MicroController control for switching regulator

Started by RogerN in sci.electronics.design7 years ago 72 replies

I'm wanting to use a microcontroller to control the output of a switching regulator, maybe something like a LM2576 simple switcher. I see the...

I'm wanting to use a microcontroller to control the output of a switching regulator, maybe something like a LM2576 simple switcher. I see the adjustability is on the feedback lead but what's the best way make it adjustable from a microcontroller. I'm guessing the feedback may be used in switching timing, ie, I guess I can't just use a DAC and get an output of 1.23V more than the DAC ...


LPC1768 ADC

Started by John Larkin in sci.electronics.design3 years ago 6 replies

Does anyone use the LPC176* uPs? I need to know how much current the ADC/DAC VREFP pin uses, and I can't find that anywhere. You'd think they...

Does anyone use the LPC176* uPs? I need to know how much current the ADC/DAC VREFP pin uses, and I can't find that anywhere. You'd think they might spec that. They recommend filtering it, but the eval board uses a ferrite bead. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtec...


semiconductor drift

Started by John Larkin in sci.electronics.design8 years ago 52 replies

We have two 8-channel waveform generators that were shipped 4 months ago, and came back because the customer ordered too many or something. We...

We have two 8-channel waveform generators that were shipped 4 months ago, and came back because the customer ordered too many or something. We routinely test anything that comes back, before returning them or returning to stock. What's interesting is that all 16 channels have a negative DC offset. Each channel is a diff-current-output cmos DAC, an opamp diffamp, a passive LC filter, and ...


pipeline ADC missing codes

Started by Anonymous in sci.electronics.design2 years ago 25 replies

I've been researching this and see a lot of papers and appnotes that are mostly the same. We conjecture that some capacitive-DAC pipeline...

I've been researching this and see a lot of papers and appnotes that are mostly the same. We conjecture that some capacitive-DAC pipeline ADCs do not act as if they have a single sample-and-hold in the front end, but are more complex and have, essentially, multiple s/h elements. One consequence is that the presence of very high frequency components of the signal can cause missing codes if...


Multiplexer sample and hold

Started by bitrex in sci.electronics.design7 years ago 37 replies

In some old schematics for analog music synthesizers, where the analog signal path is under microprocessor control, I see that they use a...

In some old schematics for analog music synthesizers, where the analog signal path is under microprocessor control, I see that they use a multiplexer arrangement to route control voltages around being driven from a single DAC, usually like a DAC08 or something. They feed it into something like a 4051 multiplexer, followed up with a JFET input amp like a TL084 configured as a buffer, ...


DDS differential filter

Started by Anonymous in sci.electronics.design8 months ago 26 replies

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryp2m1t9mr9gi17/DDS_Diff_Filter_1.jpg?raw=1 Most DDS chips have complementary DAC current outputs and the...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryp2m1t9mr9gi17/DDS_Diff_Filter_1.jpg?raw=1 Most DDS chips have complementary DAC current outputs and the appnotes usually waste one and go to some effort to bias up a single-ended comparator. It's not any harder to go full diff on the filter, get twice the swing, and use the zero cross. To make a clock, the filter can have a ghastly Bode plot. It doesn't have t...


quantizer for LT Spice

Started by John Larkin in sci.electronics.design8 years ago 19 replies

Here's a quantizer in LT Spice: ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Quantizer.jpg It wasn't hard, but the HELP is really obscure about syntax, and...

Here's a quantizer in LT Spice: ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Quantizer.jpg It wasn't hard, but the HELP is really obscure about syntax, and there is no example of a schematic with a b-source that I could find. There is a sample-and-hold schematic symbol, so one can simulate the effects of a clocked ADC or a DAC on a control loop. John Version 4 SHEET 1 880 680 WIRE 48 48 0 48 W...


DDS wisdom

Started by Phil Hobbs in sci.electronics.design8 years ago 152 replies

Hi, all, I have a gig coming in that will have me revisiting my thesis research from nearly 30 years ago, on interferometric laser...

Hi, all, I have a gig coming in that will have me revisiting my thesis research from nearly 30 years ago, on interferometric laser microscopes. (Fun.) Back in the day, I made a nulling-type phase digitizer at 60 MHz by driving a phase shifter with a 12-bit DAC (AD-DAC80), and wrapping a 13-bit successive approximation loop round it (AM2904 with an extra flipflop). With quite a lot ...


dual pulse generator again

Started by Anonymous in sci.electronics.design2 years ago 7 replies

This is looking like a real project. I need a dual pulse with low jitter, something like...

This is looking like a real project. I need a dual pulse with low jitter, something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4df10lj6l4lcla/T500_Timing_Ramp_1.jpg?raw=1 The comparators have no spec for voltage or current noise. Worse, their input current transitions from 0 to max as the ramp crosses their various DAC thresholds. Messy. BUF602 is slick. I was considering a fast current-m...


highest frequency periodic interrupt?

Started by John Larkin in sci.electronics.design5 months ago 99 replies

What's the fastest periodic IRQ that you have ever run? We have one board with 12 isolated LPC1758 ARMs. Each gets interrupted by its on-chip...

What's the fastest periodic IRQ that you have ever run? We have one board with 12 isolated LPC1758 ARMs. Each gets interrupted by its on-chip ADC at 100 KHz and does a bunch of filtering and runs a PID loop, which outputs to the on-chip DAC. We cranked the CPU clock down some to save power, so the ISR runs for about 7 usec max. I ask because if I use a Pi Pico on some new projects, it has...


Quantization and sample/hold in spice

Started by Klaus Kragelund in sci.electronics.design6 years ago 19 replies

Hi I need to introduce and error in a signal, both quantization and sample/hold Sofar I have done it by placing an opamp based sample/hold...

Hi I need to introduce and error in a signal, both quantization and sample/hold Sofar I have done it by placing an opamp based sample/hold followed by a 8bit ADC (ADC8break) and a 8 bit DAC (DAC8break) But it doesn't feel right to use that much circuitry just to simulate an error in the system Anyone know if it can be done with ABM blocks? (sample and hold can be done with a zero order...


Low noise, high bias voltage on picoAmp TIA's input, howto?

Started by timo...@ibtk.de in sci.electronics.design2 years ago 66 replies

Dear all, at first I want to thank all the experienced guys, Phil, Winfield, Gerhard... who share their valuable knowledge. That helps a lot!...

Dear all, at first I want to thank all the experienced guys, Phil, Winfield, Gerhard... who share their valuable knowledge. That helps a lot! Thank you! I'm working at a Helmholtz facility in Germany/Dresden on equipment used in fundamental research. To measure e- and ion beam currents down to sub-pA I built up Fameio, a module including TIA (9 decadic ranges), diffamp, ADC/DAC, supplies, b...


LTspice simulation is taking too long to run

Started by MUHAMMAD FAHAD BHUTTA in sci.electronics.design8 years ago 11 replies

Greetings people ! So lately, I have been working on my Sigma Delta ADC and before going advance, I wanted to have a base model WORKING (1ST...

Greetings people ! So lately, I have been working on my Sigma Delta ADC and before going advance, I wanted to have a base model WORKING (1ST ORDER, 3 bit digital output) . The circuit is quite simple. Input (x) -> Difference Amplifier -> Integrator (op-amp) -> Quantizer-> Encoder -> 3-bit Output (Y) -> Feedback DAC to the non-inverting pin of Difference Amplifier (I am using I


SainSmart relay board

Started by Paul Colby in sci.electronics.design8 years ago 9 replies
DAC

I'm trying to switch two 24 volt coaxial switches using a LabJack U6. I bought a sainsmart solid state relay board rated for 240AC @ 2A under...

I'm trying to switch two 24 volt coaxial switches using a LabJack U6. I bought a sainsmart solid state relay board rated for 240AC @ 2A under the (wrong?) assumption that it should have no issue with switching 24VDC. I'm using the VS output of the LabJack (4.9V) to power the input side of the relay board. I'm switching the logic inputs using the DAC 4.8 - 0 outputs (assuming the 3.3V l...