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Software-Defined GPS Signal Simulator
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Properties of ADALM-Pluto's DAC #351

Closed fener1efes2 closed 1 year ago

fener1efes2 commented 1 year ago

ADALM-Pluto has a 12-bit DAC as can be seen from its web-site: https://wiki.analog.com/university/tools/pluto/devs/specs

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But since we feed it with 16-bit integers, do not we overdrive its DAC?

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osqzss commented 1 year ago

A 12-bit DAC value is stored in a 16-bit integer.