This work presents a 12 bit, resistive R-2R ladder-based Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) intended to generate arbitrary waveforms for shuttling operation in a trapped-ion quantum computer (TIQC) using 171 Yb + ions. The DAC operates at a sampling frequency of 1 MHz and can replicate constant, sinusoidal, rectangular, and triangular signals within a full-scale (FS) range of ±0.9V and a resolution of 500 μV. To mitigate ion shaking in the trap, a low pass filter minimizes glitch errors at major output code transitions and a spectral noise density (SND) of 45.3nV/VHz has been measured at 100 kHz. Implemented in a 130 nm high-voltage (HV) bulk CMOS technology, the DAC consumes 1.1 m W from a 1.5 V power supply at room temperature (RT). This includes a reference buffer and a serial peripheral interface (SPI) to read in the DAC control words. The whole circuitry takes up an active area of 1200 x 700 μm 2 excluding pads. Due to its small area, low power consumption and excellent noise performance, the DAC is ideally suited as the core building block for an ion shuttling controller IC.