Preface
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2010 Microchip Technology Inc.
DS51892A-page 7
RECOMMENDED READING
This User’s Guide describes how to use the MCP43XXEV Evaluation Board. Other
useful documents are listed below. The following Microchip documents are available
and recommended as supplemental reference resources.
AN1080 Application Note, “
Understanding Digital Potentiometer Resistor
Variations
”, DS01080
AN1316 Application Note, “
Using Digital Potentiometers for Programmable
Amplifier Gain
”, DS01316
These data sheets provide detailed information regarding the MCP43xx product family:
MCP433X/5X Data Sheet,
“7/8-Bit Quad SPI Digital POT with Volatile Memory”
,
DS22242
MCP434X/6X Data Sheet,
“7/8-Bit Quad SPI Digital POT with Non-Volatile
Memory”
, DS22233
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