Bipolar ADC Basic Question

[MarcoAndarcia]

Hi

I am looking into ADC that can produce 16 bits resolution from -5V to +5V DC. I found this DAC, bit it says its bipolar. Does that means it can only do AC voltage?

https://download.siliconexpert.com/pdfs/2011/11/19/23/51/59/999/ltc_/manual/26412f.pdf

Thanks.

Marco.

 

[prestonee]

it appears to be a simple trimmed resistor ladder using cmos switches. its just a normal medium resolution dac, with built in serial to parallel digital inputs. so no it doesn't do ac. The bipolar you are referring to is just that it has the ability to change polarity, so that all 0s can be max voltage or all 0s can be min voltage. its a user setting(useful if you somehow got your inputs or output signals inverted somewhere)