TABLE OF CONTENTS While there is not an industry standard concerning data sheets, what they cover and what information is included and where that information is located, for the most part, data sheets from various manufacturers generally are similar in construction. In this section we will take a look at several data sheets and try to give a feel for where to find certain information and how to interpret what is found.
As a demonstration we will look at five data sheets:
| AD6645 | High speed ADC |
| AD9777 | High speed DAC (TxDAC, Interpolating DAC) |
| AD7678 | General Purpose ADC |
| AD5570 | General Purpose DAC |
| AD7730 | ??ADC |
The part numbers chosen are arbitrary, they were chosen only to give a range of parts.
This page is designed to give you the basic information you might need to choose the part (referring to Figure 6-179). We can break this up into three sections.
Section 1 is the features. These bullet points are what are considered by the manufacturer to be the more important parameters of the product for its intended application. The targeted applications are typically listed as well.
Section 2 is the product description. This typically covers some of what the manufacturer considers to be the salient features of the op amp.
Section 3 is the functional block diagram. Many times you can get information from the block diagram. In this instance we can see that the ADC...
