Suggestions for a DAC/ADC

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Marks256

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Can anyone suggest a programmable A/D D/A chip? Serial communication to a microcontroller is preferred, but parallel is fine as well. 8 bits of resolution is plenty, no more than 16 bit resolution. Must have a minimum of 8 channels, but the more the better. 16+ channels is preferred.

If it exists, i would also like it so each channel is programmable independently to be A/D or D/A.


Hope i'm not getting my hopes up wishing a chip like this exists


Thanks all!
 
Could you tell us a little more about the signals you'll be measuring (bandwidth, etc).
 
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Umm... I don't even know... Umm... Let's say a minimum of 4MHz? Just a guess. There really is no set value.


I did find an I2C ADC/DAC, but it was only a single channel.
 
I basically need to test a wide range of unknown inputs

4MHz is FAST for A/D?? :/ hmm... I suppose that would make sense.


Well how does an oscilloscope do it? They can do 100MHz, so how is that done? I don't need 100MHz, 10 would actually be more than enough. 4 would probably more than enough. But still, how does an o-scope do it?
 
blueroomelectronics said:
what are you trying to build? A scope?
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Well... technically yes... technically no. I'd rather not say what i'm building. but basically i want to build a logic analyzer, but i need analog inputs so i can tell if the input is tristate. So basically i want to make a logic analyzer that can tell if an input is in tristate as well.

I think i may just try to find a way to do this digitally, instead of having a 100k resistor goign to vcc and gnd and reading 2.5v if it is tristate.
 
Well you don't need an A/D or D/A for a logic analyzer. Logic probes do tristate, analyzers normally do not (they are high speed latches).
 
Marks256 said:
I think i may just try to find a way to do this digitally, instead of having a 100k resistor goign to vcc and gnd and reading 2.5v if it is tristate.
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eblc1388 told you how to do this in the other thread using a small cap ?
 
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blueroomelectronics said:
Well you don't need an A/D or D/A for a logic analyzer. Logic probes do tristate, analyzers normally do not (they are high speed latches).
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Well... see, i would also like the inputs to work as outputs, too. Digital and Analog outputs. So for digitial i could just output 0v and 5v, and analogue would just simply be analog. But it seems that is not possible at the moment, so i just may leave that functionality out.

3v0 said:
told you how to do this in the other thread using a small cap ?
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Yes, this is probably what i will use.
 
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