When is an NCO peripheral better than a timer?

[langwadt]

While you can use the full output word and feed it into a D/A converter and filter, you can often take the MSbit output and run it through a simple L/C filter

Thanks for the information, but I'm either missing something or it's not relevant to NCO modules in microcontrollers - there's no "output word", just the final output signal...?

and that output is the MSB