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Nyquist-Rate Digital to Analog Converters

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Data Converters

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This chapter studies digital-to-analog architectures used in integrated circuits. We shall first consider the basic requirements on the voltage and the current references: the accuracy of any DAC (and also any ADC) critically depends on the quality of its references. Then, we shall study resistor based and capacitor based architectures. These architectures provide an attenuation of the reference voltage under the control of the digital input. Finally, we shall study the architectures that obtain the DAC function by steering unary or binary-weighted current sources.

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(2007). Nyquist-Rate Digital to Analog Converters. In: Data Converters. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32486-9_3

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