The DAC82001 device is a single-channel, unbuffered voltage output, 16‑bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) operating from a single 3.3-V to 5-V power supply. This converter provides 1-LSB DNL and 2-LSB INL linearity. With a 10-pF load, the output of the DAC82001 settles to ½ LSB of full scale at 1 µs. The glitch impulse of 1-LSB code change around major carry is 0.5 nV-s.

The device incorporates a power-on-reset circuit to make sure that the DAC output powers up at zero scale or midscale, depending on status of the RSTSEL pin, and remains at that scale until a valid code is written to the device. All internal registers are asynchronously reset after the RESET pin is pulled low. Similar to the power-on-reset, the RESET signal sets the DAC output to zero scale or midscale based on the status of the RSTSEL pin.

The digital interface of the DAC82001 uses a 3-wire serial peripheral interface (SPI) that operates at clock rates of up to 50 MHz.