EDN

Selecting and using high-precision D/A converters

The first step in selecting and using high-precision D/A converters is to consider the DAC architecture that is best for a given application. Several architectures are available, including oversampled ...
EDN

DAC BASICS, Part 1: Finding a Home for Your DAC

So you need a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your circuit? This should not be much of a challenge. It is simply a matter of taking a digital word, such as 011, and turning it into an analog ...
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 ...
TechRepublic

VLSI Design of 12-Bit ADC with 1GSPS in 180nm CMOS Integrating with SAR and Two-Step Flash ADC

In this paper, a novel hybrid ADC consisting of two-step quantizer which has flash ADC and SAR ADC along with resistor string DAC is designed and implemented. This hybrid ADC improves the speed by ...
ecoustics

FiiO Teases K17 R2R Pro DAC and Headphone Amplifier With Wi-Fi

Coming mid-2026, the FiiO K17 R2R Pro DAC and headphone amplifier aims for a more analogue like listening experience with proprietary resistor ladder architecture. FiiO is pushing performance with the ...