-On the tinyAVR 1-series, a new feature was added to the ACs: The parts had an 8-bit DAC, so they tied it to the AC's negative mux, an obvious choice. When they added the extra AC's on the 16k and 32k parts, they wanted to have the sme functionality on the other AC's (as it was very well suited to things like windowed mode, which was now posible), so they added two more DAC instances which didn't have an output buffer, and were used only for the AC's. That seemed to be a great combination, and was adopted from the mega0-series onwards built into the AC and called the DACREF. At this point, it replaced the previous VREF option entirely, and when the DAC returned as a peripheral in the Dx-series, it was independent of the ACs. In fact, it isn't even routed to the AC's; the DAC there gets direct internal connections to the ADC and the OPAMPS but nt the ACs.
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