Lab 2 - EE 421L 

Authored by Trevor Ensign

ensigt1@unlv.nevada.edu

September 13, 2017 

 

Pre-lab work

 

In this lab, we designed a 10-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) using a chain of resistors.
 
For the prelab, I downloaded the lab2 zip file link and uploaded it to the CMOSedu directory. After opening cadence, I navigated to the sim_Ideal_ADC_DAC schematic and ran the cooresponding simulation.  
 
The simulation  for this  part demonstrates how well  DAC can recreate an analog input signal. This is done by feeding an input voltage to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and then sent to a DAC for which the output is graphed against the orginal signal. As you can see from the graph below, the DAC recreates the analog signal by outputing a voltage value at equal intervals.
 
http://cmosedu.com/jbaker/courses/ee421L/f17/students/ensigt1/lab2/prelab_02_sim.png
 

Lab description

 

This first part of creating

Add a return to the listing of your labs