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Low-Power, High-Accuracy Instrumentation Amplifier with On-Chip Calibration
Surprisingly, with all of the system technology that Microchip Technology offers, it never had an instrumentation amplifier. With the introduction of the MCP6N11 instrumentation amplifier, that has...
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In-Line Amplifier Targets Strain Gauges
If you work with strain gauges, you usually have to amplify the output to achieve a useable signal for the rest of the system. FUTEK’s recently improved its CSG110 Strain Gauge Amplifier to simplify...
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Simplifying Precision Current Measurements
Amplifying the voltage drop across a manganin shunt is a common technique for current sensing. Micro Oscillator, Inc.’s family of sMart shunts provides a simplified alternative. The high-side...
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Availability of Three New Sensors
With the recent acquisition of three product lines from Everight Sensors Corporation, H. G. Schaevitz LLC Alliance Sensors Group has expanded its sensor product offerings. The PG Series of Power...
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Sense Voltage and Current for Battery Fuel Gauging in Electric Scooters
With a recently developed reference design, ams allows designers to readily use simple current and voltage measurement circuitry to produce state-of-charge (SOC) readings for electric scooter...
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Alliance Sensors Offers AC-LVDT Signal Conditioner
Alliance Sensors Group offers the model “S1A” – DIN rail mountable, push button calibrated AC-LVDT Signal Conditioner. Alliance Sensors Group offers superior technical support and customer service....
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Reducing the Cost of Special Circuitry for Sensors
At Sensors Expo 2013, Reid Wender, vice president of product marketing for Triad Semiconductor explains how his company plans to reduce the cost of developing mixed-signal integrated circuits for...
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In this Frank Talk About Sensors, Luis Orozco, a systems applications engineer in the Strategic Business Segments, Industrial and Instrumentation for Analog devices, demonstrates two interesting...
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Temp Sensors Communicate and Filter
Called the world’s first family of temp sensors with 1.8V SMBus and I2C™ communications, Microchip Technology’s EMC118X temperature sensor ICs target signal communications within the latest generation...
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Portable Interface Box Eliminates PC Cards
If you want to eliminate the PC interface card that connects encoders to industrial PC or laptop, HEIDENHAIN has an alternative to consider. The EIB 742 external interface box connects a maximum of...
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Sensor Signal Conditioner Supports Sent 3.0 Output and ASIL B Requirements
Automotive applications for low-cost sensor networking can be addressed with the SAE J2716 SENT (Single Edge Nibble Transmission) protocol. The point-to-point network approach transmits signal values...
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The CTMU in the Sensor Signal Chain
In this Frank Talk about Sensors, Randy Frank talks to Jim Bartling of Microchip Technology about reducing processing time in the sensor signal chain. To hear the discussion, click here. For more...
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Pressure Sensors for Different Applications
At Sensors Expo 2014, David Ezekiel vice president of Sales and Marketing at Servoflo discusses ZMDI signal conditioning circuits used in medical and harsh pressure sensing applications with an example...
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Using Magnetoresistive Sensing Technology
At Sensors Expo 2014, Josef Janisch, global product manager for Multimarket Sensing at ZMDI explains the capabilities of ZMDI’s newest magnetic position sensor (ZSSC5101) that uses magnetoresistive...
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Alliance Sensors Group: The name in LVDT signal conditioning
Alliance Sensors Group has developed into “The Name in LVDT Signal Conditioning” due to the constant improvements and advancements made to its line of LVDT signal conditioners. Alliance Sensors Group...
View ArticleFrank Talk About Sensors: A New Sensor Interface Specification
In this Frank Talk About Sensors, Sensor Tips’ Randy Frank gets input about the recently announced I3C Sensor Interface Specification from Peter Lefkin and Ken Foust from the MIPI Alliance. To watch...
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Directly Digitize Temperature Readings with Digital Temperature Measurement IC
With its LTC2983 digital temperature measurement IC, allows users to directly digitize RTDs, thermocouples, thermistors and external diodes with 0.1°C accuracy and 0.001°C resolution. Provided absolute...
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Solving Multi-channel LVDT Measurement System Susceptibly to Cross Talk
When LVDT signal cables are bundled together or laid close to each other in a wire trough, even for short distances, the result can be a mutual interference phenomenon called heterodyning or “beating.”...
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Availability of Three New Sensors
With the recent acquisition of three product lines from Everight Sensors Corporation, H. G. Schaevitz LLC Alliance Sensors Group has expanded its sensor product offerings. The PG Series of Power...
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Sense Voltage and Current for Battery Fuel Gauging in Electric Scooters
With a recently developed reference design, ams allows designers to readily use simple current and voltage measurement circuitry to produce state-of-charge (SOC) readings for electric scooter...
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