[sdiy] MIDM-CV DACs, Part #3 (last)
Brock Russell
brockr0 at shaw.ca
Fri Sep 20 07:21:41 CEST 2002
>Don't know if I put it "technically" right, but you could think of this as:
>The 15th bit step is smaller than the error.
>As a result the output voltage is no longer guaranteed to increase
>"monotonically".
>This is math geek speak for: the output voltage might even get lower with
>the next step up!
>
>As example on a 4 bit DAC with 3 bit monotonicity
>the output for 0110 might by _larger_ than that for 0111.
Theo:
Your description is correct but the example is wrong, the output
for 0110 will always be smaller than 0111. The errors occur when
the high bits toggle so in this example, 1000 could have the same
output as 0111.
Brock
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