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ECE3073 Digital to Analogue Converter Guide

The document contains practice questions about analogue interfacing concepts including: 1) Drawing a circuit diagram of an inverted R-2R ladder digital to analogue converter. 2) Explaining the operation and advantages of the inverted R-2R ladder digital to analogue converter. 3) Explaining why a digital to analogue converter's output is sometimes passed through a sample and hold circuit. 4) Drawing a diagram of the major components of a single-slope analogue to digital converter and describing its operation using governing equations.

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ECE3073 Digital to Analogue Converter Guide

The document contains practice questions about analogue interfacing concepts including: 1) Drawing a circuit diagram of an inverted R-2R ladder digital to analogue converter. 2) Explaining the operation and advantages of the inverted R-2R ladder digital to analogue converter. 3) Explaining why a digital to analogue converter's output is sometimes passed through a sample and hold circuit. 4) Drawing a diagram of the major components of a single-slope analogue to digital converter and describing its operation using governing equations.

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ECE3073 Computer Systems

Practice Questions

Analogue Interfacing

(i) Draw a circuit diagram of an INVERTED R-2R LADDER digital to analogue


converter.

(ii) By referring to the diagram you drew for part (i) explain the operation of the
INVERTED R-2R LADDER digital to analogue converter.

(iii) List the advantages of the INVERTED R-2R LADDER digital to analogue
converter.

(iv) Explain why the OUTPUT signal of a DIGITAL TO ANALOGUE CONVERTER


is sometimes passed through a sample and hold circuit.

(v) Draw a diagram showing the major components of a PRACTICAL sample and
hold circuit.

(vi) Explain the function of each of the components in your diagram of a sample
and hold

(vi) Draw a diagram showing the major components of a single-slope analogue


to digital converter.

(vii) Describe how the single-slope analogue to digital converter functions. Your
description should incorporate the equations governing its operation.

(viii) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the single-slope analogue to


digital converter.
Calculation Questions
i) For a 10-bit digital to analogue converter with a 5 volt reference voltage and
gain factor of 1 calculate the converter step size.
ii) For a 12-bit analogue to digital converter with a reference voltage of 10V what
digital output (in binary) would you expect for an analogue input of
4.7Volts?

iii) For an 8-bit digital to analogue converter with a reference voltage of 12V what
output voltage would you expect for a digital input of 0x15?

RAR 03/03/2013

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