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For a digital potentiometer that requires 12-bit word length, how can I control with only 8-bit word length from my micro?

April 26, 2017CONTROL digital LENGTH Micro potentiometer requires word

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For a digital potentiometer that requires 12-bit word length, how can I control with only 8-bit word length from my micro?

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You need to issue a 2 byte word. The first 4 MSB in the first byte are ignored.