JAJSK31G October 2020 – September 2023 REF70
PRODMIX
Certain DACs require external voltage references to operate properly. There are DACs that only require a positive voltage for operating in which the basic connection will work. For other DACs there can be a need a positive and negative reference voltage due to their bipolar output.
The circuit shown in Figure 10-3 shows a DAC force and sense reference drive circuit for the DACx1001 using the REF70. This circuit takes advantage of the DACx1001 RCM circuit to remove the need of additional external resistors to make a negative reference due to the integrated precision resistors. This circuit requires additional buffers due to undesired series resistance on the reference input of the DAC.