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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:08:08 -0600
From: Jason Elrod <jelrod@paveaway.com>
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Trips wrote:
> 
> Johan Foederer wrote:
> >
> > > Well you could but it would be hard. you would have to have an encoder
> > > which will have DtoA's to simulate pots.
> >
> > Have you ever seen a DAC that gives resistence as output? I haven't, but
> > if they exist I'd know a few nice things I'd like to do with them.
> 
> Never came across a DAC that outputs resistance, but an alternative
> might be a digital potentiometer. Only problem there is the best
> resolution I've seen on digital potentiometers is 8 bits (256 discrete
> resistance steps)
> 
> It might be resolution enough for sims, but then again it might not...
> 
> Trips
