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Build a simple 1-wire digital/analog converter (DAC)
Bernhard Linke,
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.
9/29/2009 7:00 AM EDT
Among devices available with a 1-wire interface, the best known are memories, temperature sensors, battery monitors, and addressable switches. One-wire ADCs are also available, but there are no 1-wire DACs. You can, however, build a simple 1-wire DAC using addressable switches. This article, by Bernhard Linke of Maxim, shows how to do this, and it includes full analysis as well as the circuit schematic.
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0xC0FFEE
9/29/2009 6:44 PM EDT
seems like an R-2R ladder would be better than binary weighted resistors here.
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NickAllen
10/8/2009 9:58 AM EDT
"U1s open-drain output transistors (P0-P3) either conduct (logic 0) or present a high impedance (logic 1)."
Isn't it time to stop thinking that high voltage equals "1", etc.? A transistor conducting is "ON". ON = TRUE = logic 1. Embrace the active-low and active-high logic concepts. MIL-STD-806 (the most intelligent military document ever?) did this decades ago. Then explore the use of DeMorganization of logic symbols to indicate actual circuit functions, such as using a NAND gate to OR two active-low signals.....
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