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AD5677R & AD5673R EVAL-AD5677RSDZ dev board. DAC not responding and possible error in schematics.

I have been trying to get the board and DAC running for some time now, but the DAC don't seem to respond to any commands (it responds to address scan though).

I've tried to write the DAC outputs directly (3-bytes consisting 0011+dac addres, data high byte,data low byte) and using the input registers (001) and latching the values to the output (0010).

I can't also read from the DAC registers. There are two more devices on the same I2C bus and I managed to write their drivers and get them to work immediately.

I have two questions and one statement to begin with:

- This is relatively new chip and dev board, has anyone get these working?

- Are you supposed to supply the VIO yourself (I2C_PMOD) ?

- There seems to be an error in the schematis: on the page 8, the VIO is connected to VDD and VDD is connected to VLOGIC in the DAC. This might be an issue. 

Best regards,

Janne

  • Hi Janne, 

    - This is relatively new chip and dev board, has anyone get these working?

    Yes, I was able to use this board previously, although I used the SDP board and not the PMOD interface. 

    - Are you supposed to supply the VIO yourself (I2C_PMOD) ?

    You are correct. If you are using the PMOD interface, the controller should provide the VIO. 

    - There seems to be an error in the schematis: on the page 8, the VIO is connected to VDD and VDD is connected to VLOGIC in the DAC. This might be an issue. 

    This part is a typo error only on the schematic image. Just checked the actual layout file and VIO is connected to VLOGIC and VDD to VDD. Sorry about this, it's lined up to be updated the next revision of the user guide. 

    Can you also make sure the RESET and LDAC are idled high on your controller to avoid any problems from them? 

    Best regards,

    Ian