I was delighted when reader and DI contributor Jim Brannan proposed writing up his base-3 DAC design. Like Charlieplexing, his idea makes use of tristate outputs to wring more information from a pin ...
The 16-bit DACs are a de facto standard for high DC accuracy and precision domain conversion, but surprisingly few are fully 16-bit (0.0015%) precise. Even when described as “high precision,” some ...