SBOS571C August 2011 – August 2018 BUF20800-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA.
Updating the DAC register is not the same as updating the DAC output voltage, because the BUF20800-Q1 features a double-buffered register structure. There are three methods for latching transferred data from the storage registers into the DACs to update the DAC output voltages.
Method 1 requires externally setting the latch pin (LD) LOW, LD = LOW, which will update each DAC output voltage whenever its corresponding register is updated.
Method 2 externally sets LD = HIGH to allow all DAC output voltages to retain their values during data transfer and until LD = LOW, which will then simultaneously update the output voltages of all DACs to the new register values. Use this method to transfer a future data set in advance to prepare for a very fast output voltage update.
Method 3 uses software control. LD is maintained HIGH, and all DACs are updated when the master writes a 1 in bit 15 of any DAC register. The update will occur after receiving the 16-bit data for the currently-written register.
The General Call Reset and the power-up reset will update the DAC regardless of the state of the latch pin.