Date: 10/09/2008

New wide bandwidth DAC and amplifier development toolkit from TITexas Instruments launched new development toolkit TSW3070 that aids designers to evaluate signal chain performance for test and measurement, industrial and communications applications. The development kit simplifies the complexity of interfacing between high-speed DAC and amplifiers and it comes with a graphical user interface (GUI) for DAC configuration and a complete on-board clocking solution and power supply circuitry. The features of the development kit includes: 1. DAC5682Z dual-channel, 1-GSPS DAC with current sink output. 2. OPA695 current feedback amplifier with 1.4-GHz bandwidth. 3. THS3091/5 high voltage swing amplifier with 30-V supply voltage. 4. CDCM7005 jitter cleaner with 800-MHz VCXO and10-MHz reference. 5. TPS7675x, TPS5430, UCC284-5 on board voltage supply solution from a single 6-V wall supply. 6. A GUI for easy DAC configuration. TI said that designers can drive the DAC output to either of the amplifiers OPA695 or THS3091/5, enabling customers to evaluate a high-frequency signal to support wide bandwidth or a large signal swing. The DAC5682Z converter with LVDS interface available with the kit offers many digital features, which can be configured using the GUI such as Selectable low / high / bypass filter modes, interpolation of 2x / 4x / bypass, Optional +/-Fs/4 or +/-Fs/8 coarse mixer and 8 sample input data FIFO. TI also said that the customers can utilize the LVDS outputs from TSW3100 digital pattern generator to drive the LVDS bus into the TSW3070's DAC5682Z input interface with up to 256 mega vector pattern depths. Price: $ 499 For further information:http:// www.ti.com

Texas Instruments launched new development toolkit TSW3070 that aids designers to evaluate signal chain performance for test and measurement, industrial and communications applications. The development kit simplifies the complexity of interfacing between high-speed DAC and amplifiers and it comes with a graphical user interface (GUI) for DAC configuration and a complete on-board clocking solution and power supply circuitry.

The features of the development kit includes:

1. DAC5682Z dual-channel, 1-GSPS DAC with current sink output.
2. OPA695 current feedback amplifier with 1.4-GHz bandwidth.
3. THS3091/5 high voltage swing amplifier with 30-V supply voltage.
4. CDCM7005 jitter cleaner with 800-MHz VCXO and10-MHz reference.
5. TPS7675x, TPS5430, UCC284-5 on board voltage supply solution from a single 6-V wall supply.
6. A GUI for easy DAC configuration.

TI said that designers can drive the DAC output to either of the amplifiers OPA695 or THS3091/5, enabling customers to evaluate a high-frequency signal to support wide bandwidth or a large signal swing.

The DAC5682Z converter with LVDS interface available with the kit offers many digital features, which can be configured using the GUI such as Selectable low / high / bypass filter modes, interpolation of 2x / 4x / bypass, Optional +/-Fs/4 or +/-Fs/8 coarse mixer and 8 sample input data FIFO.

TI also said that the customers can utilize the LVDS outputs from TSW3100 digital pattern generator to drive the LVDS bus into the TSW3070's DAC5682Z input interface with up to 256 mega vector pattern depths.

Price: $ 499

For further information:http:// www.ti.com