Industry's highest resolution resistive sensing conditioner
28-10-2015 |
Mouser Electronics
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Test & Measurement
Mouser has announced it is now stocking the PGA900 programmable resistive
sensing conditioner from Texas Instruments (TI). The PGA900 device is the
industry's highest resolution resistive sensing signal conditioner, enabling
fast and precise 24-bit measurement of parameters such as pressure, strain,
flow, or liquid levels, says the company.
The TI PGA900 manipulates its input signals by amplification and
digitization through two analog front end channels, each containing a
low-noise 24-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), to enable
high-resolution signal acquisition. The device also includes a 14-bit
digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to provide highly linear analog outputs,
and a variety of output interfaces - including analog voltage, 4-20 mA
current loop, SPI, I2C, UART, and one-wire interface (OWI) - to give
designers options for different application needs.
The PGA900 signal conditioner offers a programmable ARM Cortex-M0 core,
enabling flexible linearization and temperature compensation for numerous
resistive bridge sensing applications. The PGA900 offers integrated power
management that accepts external power supply voltages from 3.3V to 30V to
simplify design. Low-drift voltage reference of 10ppm/C (maximum) enables
high accuracy across the -40C to +150C operating temperature range.
Mouser is also now stocking the TI PGA900EVM evaluation module, which
enables designers to quickly and easily evaluate the features of the PGA900
conditioner in either voltage mode or current mode. The PGA900EVM has an
onboard resistive bridge with a potentiometer, letting designers adjust
differential input voltages to emulate a pressure sense element. The
PGA900EVM also includes a 7.5V regulator for one-time programmable (OTP)
memory.
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