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7 years ago

Driving Ladder DAC

Hi, Im trying to drive a resistor ladder DAC from my DE-1 SOC board, despite of my DAC being very accurate im getting somewhat shotty results. The setup is relatively simple driving the resis...
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7 years ago

It would be interesting to see one line at a time toggle between 0 and Z, or 1 and Z, with all other lines at Z.

You should get reasonably good looking square waves at different frequencies, correct?

What are the values of the resistors in the ladder? If they are too low, will draw too much current, if too high than leakage from pin will change effective value.