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An question about psoc5lp with the use of vdac

Tony dong posted on 26 Apr 2013 5:56 AM PST

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hi

 if i want to use posc to output a a signal whose votage linear increase by time, how should i do?

thanks for answering.




Re: An question about psoc5lp with the use of vdac

danaaknight posted on 26 Apr 2013 06:04 AM PST
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Use a VDAC, simply increment a counter 8 bit variable and writes its value to VDAC

in a timed loop using a timer to set rate.

 

Or use a 256 entry 8 bit table, and fill the table with the arbitrary waveform you want

to  produce. Timer incs a pointer into table, that location value written to VDAC.

 

Or use an equation based on some f(t)......

 

Regards, Dana.



Re: An question about psoc5lp with the use of vdac

danaaknight posted on 26 Apr 2013 06:23 AM PST
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Note you can also can use a PWM changing its duty cycle,

followed by a RC LPF on the output (acting as an integrator)

to convert pulse width to DC.

 

Regards, Dana.



Re: An question about psoc5lp with the use of vdac

zeta posted on 26 Apr 2013 10:19 AM PST
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 if it's going to drive a significant load, it would also e a good idea to buffer it with an opamp betwing the DAC and the pin



Re: An question about psoc5lp with the use of vdac

danaaknight posted on 27 Apr 2013 12:18 PM PST
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Small addition to Zeta's comments -

 






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