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Hi everyone,

I am trying to interface the DSK5402 to a Maxim MAX500 DAC that I
managed to get my hands on.
I was planning to use McBSP0 to interface with the DAC's SPI interface.
However, on closer inspection of the MAX500 data sheets, I realized
that there could be problems, due to the following reasons:

1) The MAX500 expects a 10-bit word length (2 address bits and 8 data
bits) to be transmitted per sample.
2) It expects a "frame synch" (LDAC and LOAD) at the end of the
transmission of each word.

As such, I was wondering if it is still possible to use the McBSP to
interface with the DAC?
If not, would it be possible to do it via a software SPI driver,
utilizing GPIO pins?

Has anyone ever tried/successfully interfaced with a MAX500 DAC before?

Thanks for any info that might come to mind. :-)

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Interfacing DSK5402 to MAX500 DAC - kelvin_teh - Apr 23 21:55:27 2006