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ATSAML21 DAC BAD DESIGN

A project log for WatchMeter

WatchMeter is a low power wrist multimeter. Very portable and intended for quick measurements and unexpected situations.

carlos-reverbelCarlos Reverbel 02/02/2018 at 20:190 Comments

Just found-out about a really bad design of the SAML21 micro. In order to use it's DAC as an internal reference for the internal OpAmps I must output the DAC to it's IO pin (pin 3, in the case of DAC0). The problem is that pin 3 is shared with OpAmp0 negative input. It is then impossible to use the DAC0 AND the negative input of OpAmp0 at the same time...

So I won't be able to implement the following current source circuit with this micro.

For version 2 I will probably change the microcontroller...

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