Demand Peripherals
Robotics and Automation Made EasyThe DAC8 peripheral lets you set the output voltage of eight 8-bit DAC channels.
Hardware:
The dac88 peripheral card provides eight 8-bit digital-to-analog converters. A wire-wrap area on the card lets you add op-amps or other custom circuitry. The DAC outputs are routed to the pads of a 3x8 header. Pin 1 is the DAC output. The other two pins go to a terminal block letting you choose the voltages on pins 2 and 3.
The dac88 card is based on the Rohm BH2226F. The output range is from zero to five volts. The maximum output current is one milliamp. The BH2226F is an SPI device and the card uses the 7474 circuit to make the peripheral reliable at the end of a long ribbon cable. More information about the DAC8 card can be found here: cards/dac8.html
Resources:
dacout : the output voltages as a space separated list of voltages in the range of 0 to 5.0 Volts. The voltages specified will be rounded to the nearest voltage available to the 8-bit DAC. This resource works with pcset and pcget. A pcget returns the actual voltage selected for the output.
Examples:
Set the eight output voltages to 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 Volts.
pcset dac8 dacout 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5
The driver sets the actual voltage to the nearest value
obtainable with eight bits of precision. For example,
the 8-bit value closest to 1.0 Volts is 0.996 Volts.