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A serial analog signal to parallel analog signals
Oct 21st, 2007, 11:05pm
 
How to transform a serial RGB analog signal to parallel analog signals?
The RGB analog signal spec is ENOB=8bit, 10MEG at least.
The purpose of the question I ask is I want to save three DACs into one DAC.
Generally, the current steering video DAC can operate in high frequency like 100MEG.
So, is there a circuit to do this transformation?
Like use "one high frequency DAC+Sample and hold" to replace "three DACs"?

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Re: A serial analog signal to parallel analog sign
Reply #1 - Oct 22nd, 2007, 12:12am
 
You missed the axis ...
Is RGB coded in frequency domain or in time domain?
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Reply #2 - Oct 22nd, 2007, 12:27am
 
RGB is coded in time domain. It's NOT a compression signal like NTSC.
The TV encoder first generates the digital codes and these digital codes are transformed to analog signals by a DAC.
There are R G B three signals, so we need three channels to do this.
Every one channel has one DAC, so there are three DACs.
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Reply #3 - Oct 23rd, 2007, 7:53pm
 
Hi,

Shouldn't a sample and hold with the corresponding phase shift in order to correctly sample the R, G and B signals do the job you are looking for?

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Re: A serial analog signal to parallel analog sign
Reply #4 - Nov 4th, 2007, 5:36pm
 
What is the loading on the output?

The reason that most video systems use three DAC's is because the output ends up driving 75 ohm coax, and three current steering DAC's get it done fairly well.

If it is a high impedance load (internal to chip lets say, then sample/holds and some phase shifting gets it done.
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