Arduino + MCP4725 Breakout Board

Well, the other I2C based breakout board I got from Sparkfun was for a Microchip MCP4725 DAC. It’s a 12 bit device, and will eventually do duty controlling the voltage controlled oscillator in my beacon transmitter. For tonight though, I just wanted to make sure I could program it, so I soldered on some header pins, plugged it into a breadboard, and coded up a small, simple program to simply send values from a table holding appropriately scaled sine values as quickly as possible. Here’s the code:

[sourcecode lang=”C”]

#include <Wire.h>

void
setup()
{
Wire.begin() ;
}

#define MCP4725_DEVICE 96

int sintab[64] = {2147, 2347, 2545, 2737, 2922, 3100, 3267, 3422, 3564, 3692, 3803,
3898, 3975, 4033, 4072, 4092, 4092, 4072, 4033, 3975, 3898, 3803,
3692, 3564, 3422, 3267, 3100, 2922, 2737, 2545, 2347, 2147, 1947,
1747, 1549, 1357, 1172, 994, 827, 672, 530, 402, 291, 196, 119, 61,
22, 2, 2, 22, 61, 119, 196, 291, 402, 530, 672, 827, 994, 1172,
1357, 1549, 1747, 1947} ;

int sp = 0 ;

void
loop()
{
Wire.beginTransmission(MCP4725_DEVICE);
Wire.send(64); // cmd to update the DAC
Wire.send(sintab[sp] >> 4); // the 8 most significant bits…
Wire.send((sintab[sp] & 15) << 4); // the 4 least significant bits…
Wire.endTransmission();
sp = (sp + 1) & 63 ;
}
[/sourcecode]

And here’s the brief YouTube video showing it in operation:



2 thoughts on “Arduino + MCP4725 Breakout Board”

  1. Steve Farthing G0XAR

    Hi Mark, Thanks for the interesting video on the I2C DAC. By a strange co-incidence I worked with Hans, G0XAR, on the first two generations of his beacon kits. Now I am working on some micro controller projects for beginners which I hope to publish later. My MCP4725 boards arrived today and as I have a bad cold I’ll be playing with them this evening rather than celebrating the new year.
    73 from cold, cold England, Steve

  2. ARUL

    hi this is my humble request how to send a serial data to dac.
    am work this and get some output, the problem is only a single data is transmit after that the master to stop the operation.
    how am sending continuously in real time please help me am attach my code here
    #include
    #include
    #define disk1 0xc0>>1 //Address of 24aa32a eeprom chip
    //#define sda A4
    //#define scl A5
    char incomingByte;
    unsigned int integerValue=4000;
    void writeEEPROM(int deviceaddress, unsigned int eeaddress,unsigned int data )
    {

    Wire.beginTransmission(deviceaddress);
    Wire.write((int)(eeaddress >> 8)); // MSB
    Wire.write((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // LSB
    Wire.write((int)(data >> 8)); // MSB
    Wire.write((int)(data & 0xFF));
    Wire.endTransmission();
    }

    void setup(void)
    {
    unsigned int address = 0;
    Serial.begin(9600);
    Wire.begin();

    }

    void loop(){

    unsigned int address = 0;
    if (Serial.available()) {
    integerValue = 0;
    while(1) {
    incomingByte = Serial.read(); // char
    if (incomingByte == ‘\ ‘) break;
    if (incomingByte == -1) continue;
    integerValue *= 10; // shift left 1 decimal place
    // convert ASCII to integer, add, and shift left 1 decimal place
    integerValue = ((incomingByte – 48) + integerValue);
    }
    }
    Serial.println(integerValue); // Do something with the value
    delay(500);
    writeEEPROM(disk1, address, integerValue);

    }

    OUTPUT: DIGITAL VAL=4000, MY VOLT =4.8V THE I2C IS WORKING FOLLOWING MANOR: S C0 A 00 A 00 A F0 A 11 A P

    THIS CODE IS USED TO DAC. THIS WORKING PREFECT IN ONE TIME. MY AIM THE DIGITAL VALUE IS PROVIDE BY USING SERIAL SO I NEED WRITE DATA CONTINUES PLEASE ANY ONE HELP ME.
    I WILL TRY ANOTHER METHOD BY REPLACING THE LINE IN ABOVE CODE, THIS SEND DATA CONTINUES BUT IN THE DAC OUTPUT VOLTAGE NOT GET THIS MY PROBLEM.
    THE CHANGES IS :Wire.endTransmission(false);
    the output is:S SR C0 A 00 A 00 A F0 A 11 A SR C0 A 00 A 00 A F0 A 11 A ……. TO FOLLOW THIS MANOR. PLEASE HELP ME AM WAIT U R REPLY THANK YOU

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