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Five Things You Don't Know about DACs
Overview:
This webcast reveals the secrets behind selecting the best DAC product for your application. Revealed within are the technical details behind five of the key specification areas of Precision Digital to Analog Converters (DAC). Topics reviewed are Resolution and Accuracy, Total Unadjusted Error, Output Noise, Output Timing and finally System Level Application considerations. These five areas are featured on most DAC Datasheets but often their relevance in real world applications is misunderstood. Participants will emerge from this webcast with a deeper understanding of DACs and how their specifications can impact system level performance.
Who should attend?
Engineers who interact with or use Converters in Industrial, Communication, Medical, Automotive or General Purpose applications.
Michael Collins, Manager, Precision DAC Applications Team, Analog Devices
Michael graduated with a Bachelors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Limerick in 2000. Michael's first role at ADI was in a design validation role within the Precision DAC Applications evaluation team. He was recently promoted to manager of this group.
Padraic O'Reilly, Application Engineer, Precision Digital to Analog Converter product line, Analog Devices
Padraic O'Reilly is an application engineer in the Precision Digital to
Analog Converter product line at Analog Devices in Limerick, Ireland.
He has worked in the field of data converters since joining ADI in 2007.
He received a B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Analog Devices
Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. Headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts,... Read More

5 comments
write a commentsharps_eng Posted Nov 23, 2011
Do TI test 100% of their output? Over time we see out-of-spec dacs in production. Using 5k per year we see too many failures. However they are cheap so ...
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Xplain Posted Dec 2, 2011
Test coverage is never 100%. If you are a regular customer you should work with TI and report the failures you see and return the failing parts for failure analysis. This way the test coverage will improve and you as a customer will over time see a lower failure rate.
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hakeen80 Posted Jan 7, 2012
Suppliers do say that. Whether it helps is another topic.
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Londonderryman Posted Dec 14, 2011
I registered but never got a link to the webcast!
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rworley Posted Dec 14, 2011
Are your Webinar presentations archive? If so how do I gain access? rworley@sdccd.edu Thank you. Ron Worley
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