DAC60501: Python3 driver or examples

David Pfaltzgraff

Part Number: DAC60501
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: DAC80502, , DAC80501

Tool/software:

I am working on a design that implements 4 of these DACs running on the Raspberry Pi I2C bus. Is there a driver and/or examples available that might get me started?

Thanks

3 months ago

0 Joseph Wu 3 months ago

TI__Guru* 98785 points

David,

We generally don't have any code examples for our devices. However, I did find a example header file for the DAC80502, which is the 16-bit dual version of the DAC60501. The header file was in another one of the E2E posts:

https://e2e.ti.com/support/data-converters-group/data-converters/f/data-converters-forum/924727/dac80501-source-code

Additionally, I did google DAC80501 example code and did find some github code for the device. Note that the github code comes from somewhere other than TI and I haven't looked at it.

Joseph Wu

+1 David Pfaltzgraff 3 months ago in reply to Joseph Wu

Expert 2475 points

Hi Joseph,

The header file and the source code I found using the Google search all seemed to be aimed at either standard 'C' or 'C++'. However, that with some of the code does give me a starting point.

Of interest to others is the code I found at https://github.com/kplindegaard/smbus2?tab=readme-ov-file#i2c This provided a direct means to do the type of transfers I needed. My code is not clean object-oriented, but it provides what I need.

Thanks, Dave

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