SBASAO8 June 2025 DAC39RF20
ADVANCE INFORMATION
When the DSPs are used, the Channel Bonder allows each DAC channel to receive a summation of any combination of DSP channel outputs (see Figure 7-45). To avoid saturation when summing DSP signals, the DSP gain should be adjusted (see DSP_GAINn). The gain is applied within each DSP before the signals reach the channel bonder (see DSP Output Gain).
DSP outputs are bound to DAC channels using the DAC_SRC register, then all bound DSP signals are summed together to produce a signal for the DAC channel (which is sent to the PFIR, DES2X interpolator or Encoder).
When the DSPs are bypassed (see Bypass Mode), the channel bonder simply allows the user to route either of the bypass sample streams to either DAC channel using DAC_SRC. No scaling or summing is supported in bypass mode.
Finally, the channel bonder can optionally invert the output based on DAC_INVn.
The input resolution of the channel bonder is 20-bits and the output resolution is 16-bits.