Copyright Paul Janicki 2016
Licensed under the TAPR Open Hardware License (www.tapr.org/OHL)
This documentation is distributed WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Quick summary
This is a digital to analogue converter based on the ADAU1966 DAC chip from Analog Devices. This is designed as part the Open Hardware DSP Platform. This may or may not be suitable for use in other applications.
This simple 16 channel DAC is designed to be used with 4xTDM4, 2xTDM8 or 1xTDM16 data inputs supported on devices such as the ADAU1452. This board can be used with the ADAU1966 in standalone mode (no host microcontroller needed) or with an external I2C interface to program/control the ADAU1966. The board uses only passive output filters on the ADAU1966 but can easily drive external PCBs through appropriate cabling.
This repository contains the KiCad design files, manufacturing Gerber/drill files, and PDF/drawing files for this board.
Most folder names are self explanatory. Starting from the top level:
DAC-ADAU1966
- Bill of Materials - This contains the bill of materials in CVS, LibreOffice Calc and XML formats
- Drawings
- PCB - This contains SVG and PDF outputs of PCB copper layers and assembly drawings
- Schematics - This contains the PDF schematic drawing
- Gerbers - This contains the PCB Gerbers and drill drawings for manufacture, there is also a zip file ready to send to most manufacturers
- KiCad - This contains the original KiCad schematic and PCB design files
Summary of set up
- Set your self up a directory on a local disk, something simple will make life easier (eg C:\Electronics on Windows as used here), but anywhere will do just fine.
- Download the Kicad-Libs from https://github.com/ohdsp/KiCad-Libs and place in C:\Electronics\Kicad-Libs (or your chosen folder)
- Create a OHDSP subdirectory in C:\Electronics (so C:\Electronics\OHDSP)
- Download this project to C:\Electronics\OHDSP\DAC-ADAU1966
- Fire up Kicad
- Open the main project file C:\Electronics\OHDSP\DAC-ADAU1966\Schematics\DAC-ADAU1966.pro
- (Optional) Setup Pcbnew component library as below.
- Do as you wish with the project, just keep it under the TAPR Open Hardware License.
Make sure your git setup doesn't exclude files used in the project (like .LIB files) or things may go wrong down the line.
KiCad Library Configuration
Note that you need to setup a Pcbnew library, but the eeschema libraries should work without any changes if you followed the instructions above.
To setup Pcbnew libraries:
In Pcbnew go to Preferences -> Footprint Libraries Manager. Under Global Libraries tab in the top list check if there is a nickname "MyKiCadLibs-Footprints" (usually at the end of the list). If there is but it points to the wrong place then change the Library Path to point to MyKiCadLibs-Footprints (eg C:\Electronics\KiCad-Libs\MyKiCadLibs-Footprints.pretty) folder for your setup. If this is missing you can use "Append with Wizard", choose "Files on my computer", click next, browse to library location (eg C:\Electronics\KiCad-Libs\MyKiCadLibs-Footprints.pretty) and select the folder MyKiCadLibs-Footprints.pretty, click next, check the Status column states OK and the Format is KiCad (if not re-download the library) and click next, then select "To global library configuration..." and click Finish.
To setup eeschema component libraries: Either from KiCad project window go to Tools -> Run Library Editor OR under eeschema, go to Tools -> Library Editor. Then Preferences -> Component Libraries.
The top section "Component Library Files" should ideally contain only two libraries, the "power" library that ships with KiCad and "MyKiCadLibs-Lib" available from above. To setup MyKiCadLibs-Lib as a relative path under the "User defined search path" click add. Browse to the location of KiCad-Libs you download above (eg C:\Electronics\KiCad-Libs) and click "Select Folder". Say yes to add a relative path. Under component library files click add, browse to the KiCad-libs again (eg C:\Electronics\KiCad-Libs), select file "MyKiCadLibs-Lib.lib" and click open. MyKiCadLibs-lib should appear in the component library list with no path as it will be using the user defined search path set in the box below.