27-03-2020 | Renesas | Design & Manufacture
Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced a new Renesas Solution Starter Kit for developers working with the 32-bit RX23E-A MCU, which features one of the most highly accurate AFE in the industry. The kit brings together hardware, software, and tools optimised for evaluating the MCU’s high-precision 24-bit delta-sigma A/D converter with industry-leading accuracy. The kit allows users with no AFE development expertise to accurately evaluate analog characteristics to the nanovolt (nV) level, thereby decreasing development workload and time-to-market.
“The RX23E-A for industrial IoT sensors is a single-chip device incorporating one of the industry’s most highly accurate AFEs, featuring less than 0.1% precision without calibration,” said Daryl Khoo, vice president of marketing, IoT Platform Business Division at Renesas. “The new solution kit provides a shortcut for customers interested in evaluating and calibrating various sensor types to shorten the time required to develop more highly accurate sensing equipment.”
Designed to optimise evaluation of the AFE, the new evaluation board enables users to check characteristics of the 24-bit delta-sigma A/D converter with high accuracy, regardless of analog development expertise levels. The board is furnished with a plug-in terminal block to connect a mixture of sensors without soldering, a thermocouple connector, and the reference junction compensation circuit needed for thermocouple measurement applications. By referencing thermocouple and weight measurement application software (both offered for download on the company website), users can quickly start their evaluation, thereby shortening the time needed to develop IoT sensor devices.
