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A Digital-to-Analog Converter with a Voltage Standard Reference
Published
Author(s)
Alain Rufenacht, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel Benz, Paul Dresselhaus
Abstract
Commercially available 20-bit digital to analog converters (DACs) have the potential to impact the field of low frequency voltage metrology. We measured a linearity of ±6 µV (±0.6 µV/V full scale) over the 10 V range for such a DAC with a Zener voltage standard in use as its external 10 V reference. This result is a first step toward implementing such a DAC as an ac synthesized source, whose accuracy and stability could be established by a dc voltage standard reference.
Proceedings Title
Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Conference Digest
Volume
28
Conference Dates
July 1-6, 2012
Conference Location
National Harbor, MD, US
Conference Title
Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements
Rufenacht, A.
, Burroughs, C.
, Benz, S.
and Dresselhaus, P.
(2012),
A Digital-to-Analog Converter with a Voltage Standard Reference, Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Conference Digest, National Harbor, MD, US, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/CPEM.2012.6250990 , https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=910559
(Accessed October 8, 2025)