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LTC1451

LTC1452/LTC1453

Reference

The LTC1451 includes an internal 2.048V reference, mak-

ing 1LSB equal to 1mV (gain of 2). The LTC1453 has an

internal reference of 1.22V with a full scale of 2.5V (gain of

2.05). The internal reference output is turned off when the

pin is forced above the reference voltage, allowing an

external reference to be connected to the reference pin.

The LTC1452 has no internal reference and the REF pin

must be driven externally. The buffer gain is 2, so the

of driving the 8k minimum DAC resistor ladder.

Voltage Output

The LTC1451 family’s rail-to-rail buffered output can

source or sink 5mA over the entire operating temperature

range while pulling to within 300mV of the positive supply

voltage or ground. The output swings to within a few

millivolts of either supply rail when unloaded and has an

equivalent output resistance of 40

Ω when driving a load to

the rails. The output can drive 1000pF without going into

oscillation.

Serial Interface

on the rising edge of the clock. The MSB is loaded first. The

DAC register loads the data from the shift register when

CS/LD is pulled high. The CLK is disabled internally when

CS/LD is high. Note: CLK must be low before CS/LD is

pulled low to avoid an extra internal clock pulse.

The buffered output of the 12-bit shift register is available

Multiple LTC1451/LTC1452/LTC1453s may be daisy-

pin of the next chip, while the CLK and CS/LD signals

remain common to all chips in the daisy chain. The serial

data is clocked to all of the chips, then the CS/LD signal is

pulled high to update all of them simultaneously.

OPERATIO