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A current-output DAC with on-board calibration engine guarantees 16b monotonicity and achieves better than -160dBm/Hz noise power spectral density. Well bootstrapping, local bias generation and constant data activity techniques are combined to achieve better than -80dBc IMD to 300MHz at 400MS/s.
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Schofield et al. (2003) studied this question.