[sdiy] modern AD/DA chips?

Wed May 6 23:27:56 CEST 2009

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Tom Arnold wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:43:52PM -0700, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>> Do you know of a DAC (irrespective of it's price) that would be satisfactory?
>
> The AD8300 looks tolerable at 12bit, so I'm building the Polydac boards
> finally ( made'em in 2006 and just now using them ).

Consider also the Microchip MCP4821/4921. 12 bits, 2 lsb INL, 0.1% gain 
error (typical). Damn cheap too.

If I were to build a Midi2cv, I'd scrap Paia & related designs as outdated 
and build something with a simple MCU and a serial DAC.

Antti

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