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Completing the
hardware side of the ADC design is relatively easy. Most
of the circuits have already been either constructed or
discussed. From Lab 8, you constructed the RC-DAC. This
will need to be connected to the ADC test circuitry you
constructed in lab 5. After this is done, you will need to
build the multiplexed LED display. Finally, you will need
to modify the successive approximation ADC program you
wrote in Lab 6 so that the program drives the RC-DAC
(rather than the R2R ladder DAC), the binary search
converges to a 6-bit digital number (instead of 3-bit), and
the quantized number is used to drive the dual-digit
(rather than single digit) display.
Michael Lemmon
2009-02-01