DAC8550 - experimental

Arduino library for DAC8550 SPI Digital Analog Convertor.

Description

The DAC8550 is a SPI based 16 bit DAC with one channel.

WARNING this library is not tested with real hardware yet. It is derived from the DAC8551 library.

0.3.0 Breaking change

Version 0.3.0 introduced a breaking change to improve handling the SPI dependency. The user has to call SPI.begin() or equivalent before calling DAC.begin(). Optionally the user can provide parameters to the SPI.begin(...)

0.2.0 Breaking change

The version 0.2.0 has breaking changes in the interface. The essence is removal of ESP32 specific code from the library. This makes it possible to support the ESP32-S3 and other processors in the future. Also it makes the library a bit simpler to maintain.

Note order of parameters changed.

Related

• https://github.com/RobTillaart/DAC8550
• https://github.com/RobTillaart/DAC8551
• https://github.com/RobTillaart/DAC8552
• https://github.com/RobTillaart/DAC8554
• https://github.com/RobTillaart/MCP_DAC
• https://github.com/RobTillaart/AD5680 (18 bit DAC)

Interface

#include "DAC8550"

Core

• DAC8550(uint8_t select, SPIClassRP2040 * spi = &SPI) Constructor for hardware SPI, RP2040.
• DAC8550(uint8_t select, SPIClass * spi = &SPI) Constructor for hardware SPI, other.
• DAC8550(uint8_t select, uint8_t spiData, uint8_t spiClock) Constructor for the software SPI.
• void begin() initializes library internals.
• void setValue(uint16_t value) set the value of the channel to 0 - 65535
• uint16_t getValue() returns the last value written.

Hardware SPI

To be used only if one needs a specific speed.

• void setSPIspeed(uint32_t speed) set SPI transfer rate.
• uint32_t getSPIspeed() returns SPI transfer rate.
• bool usesHWSPI() returns true if HW SPI is used.

Power down

check datasheet for details.

• void setPowerDown(uint8_t powerDownMode) sets power down mode. 0 - 3.
• uint8_t getPowerDownMode() returns last written mode.

Power down mode	Value
DAC8550_POWERDOWN_NORMAL	0
DAC8550_POWERDOWN_1K	1
DAC8550_POWERDOWN_100K	2
DAC8550_POWERDOWN_HIGH_IMP	3

Operation

See examples

Future

Must

• improve documentation

Should

• testing with real hardware

Could

• improve code incl readability
  • spiData => spiDataOut

Wont

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