I guess everyone has seen this, but Linear has a nice appnote «A Standards Lab 
Grade 20-Bit DAC with 0.1ppm/°C Drift»

http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/application-note/an86f.pdf

Ole

> 26. nov. 2017 kl. 13:50 skrev Magnus Danielson <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi
> 
>> On 11/26/2017 02:26 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
>> Though, if you have a decent 16bit DAC and want to get to 18bit,
>> that's fairly simple using delta-sigma modulation... if you can live
>> with a low pass fillter after the DAC. But the DNL will be the limiting
>> factor here (unless you use some special techniques) and the (absolute) INL
>> will not get better, for obvious reasons.
> 
> I needed 19 bit rather than 16 bit, so I implemented an interpolation scheme. 
> A first degree sigma-delta would also be possible, but for low ratios what I 
> did was more efficient.
> 
> A first degree sigma-delta is fairly simple thought.
> 
> The trick is that you want to push the noise high up so it becomes trivial to 
> filter, then the filter will not be hard to design and won't be low enough to 
> cause PLL instability and implementation troubles.
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
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