The circuit in Figure 1 controls 32 voltage-output channels from the parallel port of a PC. The circuit comprises eight DAC7615 quad voltage-output, serial-data programmable, 12-bit DACs. The controlling PC individually programs each of the 32 DAC channels, and all DAC outputs simultaneously update. The parallel port's eight data-output lines provide serial data into each of the eight quad DAC7615s. The remaining four control lines of the parallel port provide the serial-data clock, input-register clock, DAC-register clock, and DAC-reset functions. Each DAC7615 has a reference high and low input, which the circuit connects to external reference voltages of 2.5V and –2.5V, respectively. Two OPA4277 quad op amps buffer the ±2.5V DAC reference voltages. Because all of the DACs use the same ±2.5V reference voltages, all DAC outputs track together as a function of these references. The resulting DAC output-voltage range for all 32 channels is –2.5V to +2.5V.
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The circuit programs each of the eight DAC7615s by shifting in a serial 16-bit word comprising two address bits, two dummy bits, and the DAC 12-bit data word. The serial data for the VOUTA channel of each DAC7615 shifts in first, followed by the VOUTB , VOUTC , and VOUTD channels. The DAC7615s have a double-buffered data input, so the circuit can load the programmed data for all DAC channels into input registers without changing the previously set DAC output voltage. After each 16-bit word shifts into the corresponding DAC7615, the DAC control line momentarily pulses low to latch the shifted data into each DAC's internal input register. Finally, when the circuit has programmed all DAC input registers, the signal pulses low to update the internal DAC registers and change all DAC outputs. To use the parallel port for simultaneous serial data transmission to all DAC7615s, the software must first manipulate the digital output data to place it in a form that can stream out the parallel port. The controlling software transposes a group of eight 16-bit words, representing the codes to shift into each DAC7615, into a group of 16 8-bit words (Figure 2). The resulting vector of 16 8-bit words represents the 16-bit serial data stream, which the circuit simultaneously shifts into the selected one-of-four registers of the DAC7615s. This transposition repeats four times to program all four channels of each DAC7615.
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