Hi. I've been attempting to work with the DAC80508, as of yet to no success. I've got a few quick questions to hopefully find where I'm going wrong.
- Is there any initialization code that needs to be sent to the DAC prior to writing data to the output registers?
- Is CRC enabled or disabled by default? If it's enabled, is there any easy way to disable just that without changing any of the other configuration settings?
- The documentation says that SDI data is to be clocked on the falling edge of the clock (as in SPI modes 0 & 3), yet doesn't specify weather the clock polarity should be set to start high or low. Does that matter?
- The specifications document leaves the minimum clock frequency blank. Might it be an issue to run the product significantly (~20x) below the listed maximum frequency?
- If none of these would be an issue, is there any other obvious issue that would cause the device just to output the startup voltage and to not respond to commands? Even an idea of where to start looking to diagnose it would be supremely helpful!
Thanks so much for your time, and sorry about the more vague nature of this post!