Oct 30, 2014 #1 C Christian Chetcuti Junior Member level 3 Joined Mar 12, 2014 Messages 30 Helped 0 Reputation 0 Reaction score 0 Trophy points 6 Activity points 213 Is it possible to connect a sine wave of 8 bits, to a dac whose input channel is 12 bits?
Oct 30, 2014 #2 T TrickyDicky Advanced Member level 7 Joined Jun 7, 2010 Messages 7,110 Helped 2,081 Reputation 4,181 Reaction score 2,048 Trophy points 1,393 Activity points 39,769 Yes - you should be able to just do some gain to increase the bit size (or just append some bits)
Oct 30, 2014 #3 S std_match Advanced Member level 4 Joined Jul 9, 2010 Messages 1,304 Helped 463 Reputation 926 Reaction score 448 Trophy points 1,363 Location Sweden Activity points 10,170 If the 8-bit sine wave has a higher sample rate than you want for the 12-bit DAC, more bits can be created with filtering.
If the 8-bit sine wave has a higher sample rate than you want for the 12-bit DAC, more bits can be created with filtering.