Hackaday

Logic Noise: Digital To Analog With An R-2R DAC

Making sound with digital logic usually calls for a Digital to Analog converter. Building one can be very simple, and the sound quality out of an R-2R Ladder is actually pretty good. In the last ...
ecoustics

HiFiMAN Introduces EF1000DAC Hymalaya Pro R-2R Ladder DAC for $15K

Can HiFiMAN’s new flagship desktop DAC/Amplifier improve over its predecessor? We’ll find out soon. HIFIMAN today announced the EF1000DAC ($15,000), a new reference desktop DAC/amplifier featuring the ...
ecoustics

Astell&Kern’s A&futura SE300 DAP Features A Very Unique DAC: High-End Munich 2023

Astell&Kern’s A&futura SE300 DAP utilizes an R-2R Ladder DAC and looks to be an ideal match for the new A&K AURA IEMs that are also making their debut at High-End Munich 2023. Astell&Kern made its ...
TechRepublic

Design of Low Power R-2R DAC for High-Speed Communications

Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) is a device used to convert the input signal that is in digital form into an output signal in the analog form (voltage). The resulting DAC output voltage is ...
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 4: The Pesky DAC Output Glitch-Impulse

In DAC BASICS, Part 3: Static specifications, we talked about the static specifications and their impact DC characteristics, such as offset, gain, and linearity. These characteristics are generally ...
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 ...