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Dual-Channel, 16-Bit, 1.25-GSPS, 1x-16x Interpolating Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)

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DAC3482

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Parameters

Resolution (Bits) 16 DAC channels 2 Interface Parallel LVDS Sample/update rate (MSPS) 1250 Features Ultra High Speed Rating Catalog Interpolation 16x, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x Power consumption (Typ) (mW) 800 SFDR (dB) 82 Architecture Current Source Operating temperature range (C) -40 to 85 Reference: type Int open-in-new Find other High-speed DACs (>10MSPS)

Package | Pins | Size

NFBGA (ZAY) 196 144 mm² 12 x 12 WQFN-MR (RKD) 88 81 mm² 9 x 9 open-in-new Find other High-speed DACs (>10MSPS)

Features

  • Very Low Power: 900 mW at 1.25 GSPS, Full
    Operating Conditions
  • Multi-DAC Synchronization
  • Selectable 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x Interpolation Filter
    • Stop-Band Attenuation > 90 dBc
  • Flexible On-Chip Complex Mixing
    • Fine Mixer with 32-Bit NCO
    • Power Saving Coarse Mixer: ± n×Fs/8
  • High Performance, Low Jitter Clock Multiplying
    PLL
  • Digital I and Q Correction
    • Gain, Phase, Offset, and Group Delay
      Correction
  • Digital Inverse Sinc Filter
  • Flexible LVDS Input Data Bus
    • Word- or Byte-Wide Interface
    • 8 Sample Input FIFO
    • Data Pattern Checker
    • Parity Check
  • Temperature Sensor
  • Differential Scalable Output: 10 mA to 30 mA
  • Multiple Package Options: 88-Pin 9x9mm WQFN-
    MR and 196-ball 12mmx12mm NFBGA (GREEN /
    Pb-Free)
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Description

The DAC3482 is a very low power, high dynamic range, dual-channel, 16-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with a sample rate as high as 1.25 GSPS.

The device includes features that simplify the design of complex transmit architectures: 2x to 16x digital interpolation filters with over 90 dB of stop-band attenuation simplify the data interface and reconstruction filters. A complex mixer allows flexible carrier placement. A high-performance low jitter clock multiplier simplifies clocking of the device without significant impact on the dynamic range. The digital Quadrature Modulator Correction (QMC) enables complete IQ compensation for gain, offset, phase, and group delay between channels in direct up-conversion applications.

Digital data is input to the device through a flexible LVDS data bus with on-chip termination. Data can be input either word-wide or byte-wide. The device includes a FIFO, data pattern checker and parity test to ease the input interface. The interface also allows full synchronization of multiple devices.

The device is characterized for operation over the entire industrial temperature range of –40°C to 85°C and is available in a very-small 88-pin 9x9mm WQFN-MR package or 196-ball 12x12mm NFBGA package.

Very low power, small size, superior crosstalk, high dynamic range, and features of the DAC3482 make it an ideal fit for today’s communication systems.

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Technical documentation

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* Datasheet DAC3482, Dual-Channel, 16-Bit, 1.25 GSPS Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) datasheet (Rev. F) Aug. 31, 2015
Technical articles Keys to quick success using high-speed data converters Oct. 13, 2020
Application notes QFN and SON PCB Attachment (Rev. B) Aug. 24, 2018
Technical articles Digital signal processing in RF sampling DACs – part 2 Apr. 04, 2017
Technical articles Digital signal processing in RF sampling DACs - part 1 Feb. 13, 2017
Technical articles Why phase noise matters in RF sampling converters Nov. 28, 2016
User guides TSW308x Evaluation Module (Rev. B) May 18, 2016
User guides DAC348x EVM User's Guide (Rev. A) May 03, 2016
Application notes Effects of Clock Spur on High Speed DAC Performance (Rev. A) May 18, 2015
User guides TSW308x Wideband Digital to RF Transmit Solution Design Guide Sep. 03, 2013
User guides Analog Interfacing Networks for DAC348x and Modulators (TIDA-00077) (Rev. A) Aug. 14, 2013
Application notes Using DAC348x with Fault Detection and Auto Output Shut-off Feature Feb. 21, 2013
Application notes DAC348x Device Configuration and Synchronization Feb. 18, 2013
Application notes Effects of Clock Noise on High Speed DAC Performance Nov. 08, 2012
Application notes High Speed, Digital-to-Analog Converters Basics (Rev. A) Oct. 23, 2012
Application notes Design Summary Multi-row Quad Flat No-lead (MRQFN) Aug. 29, 2012
User guides Interfacing Altera FPGAs to ADS4249 and DAC3482 (TIDA-00069 Reference Guide) Jul. 10, 2012
User guides TSW1400 Pattern Generators May 03, 2012
User guides TSW2110EVM User's Guide Mar. 26, 2012
Application notes Configuring and Optimizing On-Chip PLL of the DAC348x Jan. 26, 2012
User guides TSW3085EVM ACPR and EVM Measurements (TIDA-00076 Reference Guide) Dec. 29, 2011
More literature TI and Altera Ease Design Process with Compatible Evaluation Tools Apr. 25, 2011
More literature TI and Xilinx Ease Design Process with Compatible Evaluation Tools Apr. 25, 2011

Design & development

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Hardware development

EVALUATION BOARDS Download
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Description

The DAC3482EVM is a circuit board that allows designers to evaluate the performance of Texas Instruments' two-channel, ultra-low power, 16-bit, 1.25 GSPS DAC3482 digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with 16-bit or 8-bit wide DDR LVDS data input, integrated 2x/4x/8x/16x interpolation filters, 32-bit NCO (...)

Features
  • Comprehensive test capability for the DAC3482
  • Direct connection to TSW1400/TSW3100 signal generator
  • Includes CDCE62005 for clock generation or jitter cleaning
  • Software support with a full featured GUI for easy testing and prototyping
  • FMC-DAC-Adapter card compatible to connect with FMC interconnect (...)
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Description

The DAC3484EVM is a circuit board that allows designers to evaluate the performance of Texas Instruments' four-channel, ultra-low power, 16-bit, 1.25 GSPS DAC3484 digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with 16-bit or 8-bit wide DDR LVDS data input, integrated 2x/4x/8x/16x interpolation filters, 32-bit (...)

Features
  • Comprehensive test capability for the DAC3484
  • Direct connection to TSW1400/TSW3100 signal generator
  • Includes CDCE62005 for clock generation or jitter cleaning
  • Software support with a full featured GUI for easy testing and prototyping
  • FMC-DAC-Adapter card compatible to connect with FMC interconnect (...)
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    EVALUATION BOARDS Download
    document-generic User guide
    Description

    The DAC34H84EVM is a circuit board that allows designers to evaluate the performance of Texas Instruments' four-channel, ultra-low power, 16-bit, 1.25 GSPS DAC34H84 digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with 32-bit wide DDR LVDS data input, integrated 2x/4x/8x/16x interpolation filters, 32-bit NCO and (...)

    Features
  • Comprehensive test capability for the DAC34H84
  • Direct connection to TSW1400/TSW3100 signal generator
  • Includes CDCE62005 for clock generation or jitter cleaning
  • Software support with a full featured GUI for easy testing and prototyping
  • FMC-DAC-Adapter card compatible to connect with FMC interconnect (...)
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    EVALUATION BOARDS Download
    document-generic User guide
    Description

    The DAC34SH84EVM is a circuit board that allows designers to evaluate the performance of Texas Instruments' four-channel, ultra-low power, 16-bit, 1.5 GSPS DAC34SH84 digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with 32-bit wide DDR LVDS data input, integrated 2x/4x/8x/16x interpolation filters, 32-bit NCO and (...)

    Features
  • Comprehensive test capability for the DAC34SH84
  • Direct connection to TSW1400/TSW3100 signal generator
  • Includes CDCE62005 for clock generation or jitter cleaning
  • Software support with a full featured GUI for easy testing and prototyping
  • FMC-DAC-Adapter card compatible to connect with FMC interconnect (...)
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    EVALUATION BOARDS Download
    document-generic User guide
    199
    Description

    The TSW1406EVM is a low cost pattern generator circuit board used to evaluate some of Texas Instruments’ (TI) most popular high speed digital-to-analog converters (DAC).

    The TSW1406EVM supports a high speed LVDS bus capable of receiving 16-bit samples at 1.0 GSPS. The platform supports a 64k sample (...)

    Features
  • Simple 16-bit waveform generation for use with TI’s high speed DAC EVM’s
  • Supports 64k sample depth at up to 1.0 GSPS LVDS I/O rates
  • LatticeECP3 high speed mini FPGA
  • Analyzes up to 8 channels concurrently
  • Single mini USB cable for power and data
  • Utilizes easy to use software GUI package
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    EVALUATION BOARDS Download
    document-generic User guide
    399
    Description

    The TSW3085 Evalutaion Module is a circuit board that allows system designers to evaluate the combined performance of Texas Instruments' transmit signal chain with the LMK04806B (formally National Semiconductor) low noise clock generator/jitter cleaner. For ease of use as a complete RF transmit (...)

    Features
  • Includes LMK04806B for clock generation and jitter cleaning
  • Direct connection to TSW3100 signal generator
  • Comprehensive test capability for the transmitter (DAC3482 dual DAC and TRF3705 IQ Modulator) at analog baseband, IF and RF outputs
  • Software support with a full featured GUI for easy testing and (...)
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    GUIS FOR EVALUATION MODULES (EVM) Download
    SLAC483B.ZIP (105658 KB)
    GUIS FOR EVALUATION MODULES (EVM) Download
    SLAC507B.ZIP (123888 KB)
    GUIS FOR EVALUATION MODULES (EVM) Download
    SLLC420B.ZIP (199990 KB)
    INTERFACE ADAPTERS Download
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    Description
    The FMC-DAC-Adapter passive interconnect board enables the output of TI’s LVDS input high speed DACs to be directly connected to a standard FMC interconnect header, a typical input on the latest Xilinx FPGA EVMs. This enables users of TI’s high speed DAC EVMs to directly interface to Xilinx (...)
    Features
    • Enables direct connection to TI high speed DAC EVM LVDS inputs from the FMC standard header
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    Software development

    SUPPORT SOFTWARE Download
    DAC348x EVM Installer Software
    DAC348XEVM-SW — The DAC348x software allows programming control of the DAC348x family and the CDCE62005 device on each DAC348x EVM. Each device, including the DAC3484, DAC3482, and DAC34H84, has its own custom control interface. The front panel provides a tab for full programming of each device. The GUI tabs (...)
    SUPPORT SOFTWARE Download
    High-speed data converter pro software
    DATACONVERTERPRO-SW — This high-speed data converter pro GUI is a PC (Windows® XP/7 compatible) program designed to aid in evaluation of most TI high-speed data converter and analog front-end (AFE) platforms. Designed to support the entire TSW14xxx series of data-capture and pattern-generation cards (...)
    Features
    • Compatible with TSW1400, TSW1405, TSW1406 and TSW14J10, TSW14J50, TSW14J56, and TSW14J57 pattern-generation and data-capture platforms
    • Works with all TI high-speed DAC, ADC, and AFE products
    • Provides time-domain and frequency-domain analysis
    • Supports single-tone, multi-tone, and modulated (...)
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    Design tools & simulation

    SIMULATION MODELS Download
    SLAM073A.ZIP (33 KB) - IBIS Model
    SIMULATION MODELS Download
    SLUC481.ZIP (198 KB) - TINA-TI Spice Model
    SIMULATION TOOLS Download
    PSpice® for TI design and simulation tool
    PSPICE-FOR-TI — PSpice® for TI is a design and simulation environment that helps evaluate functionality of analog circuits. This full-featured, design and simulation suite uses an analog analysis engine from Cadence®. Available at no cost, PSpice for TI includes one of the largest model libraries in the (...)
    Features
    • Leverages Cadence PSpice Technology
    • Preinstalled library with a suite of digital models to enable worst-case timing analysis
    • Dynamic updates ensure you have access to most current device models
    • Optimized for simulation speed without loss of accuracy
    • Supports simultaneous analysis of multiple products
    • (...)
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    SCHEMATICS Download
    SLAR058.ZIP (4917 KB)
    SCHEMATICS Download
    SLLC424.ZIP (15830 KB)

    Reference designs

    REFERENCE DESIGNS Download
    Analog Interfacing Networks for DAC348x and Modulators
    TIDA-00077 — The analog interface circuits in this reference design are often used between current-source based digital-to analog converters (DAC) and quadrature modulators. While the DAC348x is used as an example of a TI high-speed DAC, the circuits can be applied to other current-source based converters with (...)
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    REFERENCE DESIGNS Download
    Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) and Error Vector Magnitude (%EVM) Measurements
    TIDA-00076 — This reference design discusses the use of the TSW3085EVM with the TSW3100 pattern generator to test adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) and error vector magnitude (EVM) measurements of LTE baseband signals. By using the TSW3100 LTE GUI, patterns are loaded into the TSW3085EVM which is comprised of (...)
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    REFERENCE DESIGNS Download
    FPGA Firmware Example of How To Interface Altera FPGAs to High-Speed LVDS-Interface Data Converters
    TIDA-00069 — This reference design and the associated example Verilog code can be used as a starting point for interfacing Altera FPGAs to Texas Instruments' high-speed LVDS-interface analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC). The firmware implementation is explained and the (...)
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    WQFN-MR (RKD) 88 View options

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