With modern microcontrollers, the process of interfacing with the analogue world is easy. Simply enable the on-board DAC or ADC, and talk to the world. If you’ve ever done this with a slightly older ...

Driving the software side is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 680, running Android 13 for a responsive and genuinely modern DAP experience. With 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage, plus microSD expansion ...

(ladder Digital to Analog Converter) Circuitry used to convert digital sound back into analog form for amplification. An individual resistor is associated with each bit of the digital sample, ...

The HiBy RS2 player is a new portable digital audio player based on Darwin Audio Architecture and equipped with the R2R Resistor Ladder Network DAC Array which is now available to preorder priced at ...

[Joekutz] wanted to re-build an audio-rate function generator project that he found over on Instructables. By itself, the project is very simple: it’s an 8-bit resistor-ladder DAC, a nice enclosure, ...

Shanling’s SCD3.3 treats SACD like it never died—true DSD output, a 212-resistor R2R DAC, tube stage, and enough engineering muscle to shame most “modern” players. Let’s be honest: outside the ...

Part 2 looks at interpolating DACs and sigma-delta DACs. For background reading, check out Basics of ADCs and DACs. Figure 2. The Simplest Current Output DAC. In this DAC, once a resistor is switched ...

CAD’s 1543 DAC has had an upgrade. The new model comes with improved circuitry and an updated power supply. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

When someone notices that two 8-bit DACs can be bought for less than one 16-bit DAC, a classic question is often asked: Why can’t you simply take two 8-bit DACs, assign one to the MSByte, the other to ...