A current sensor with PWM output is a very useful type of device. Traditionally, the device can serve in a digital application where the host microcontroller can determine the ratio of the on-time to ...

If you work in automotive, industrial or process control, or instrumentation engineering, you know that today's silicon sensors provide reliable and highly stable conversions between most physical ...

Renesas’ ZSSC3240, announced earlier today, is a sensor signal conditioning chip that provides amplification and 24bit digitisation for bridge and half-bridge resistive sensors, followed by 26bit ...

An example is the sensing of a rotary cam position. The oblong shape of the cam dictates use of a sensor able to detect different shapes and sizes. A simple prox sensor merely detects the presence or ...

Also known as “smart everything,” the Internet of Things (IoT) is grabbing headlines across the industry. As any great new technology, it comes wrapped in shiny paper that touts it as the solution for ...

A great many industrial sensors — flow, level, temperature, pressure, pH, and the list goes on — produce a 4-20 mA output, but today's factories increasingly need digital inputs via standard field ...

Matching a sensor interface with a programmable logic converter or controller hardware that can accept only one type of input—npn or pnp—can be difficult. The last-stage modification circuit described ...

While conditioning is necessary for measurement precision, accuracy also relies on factors such as signal transmission and sensor construction. The transmission distance can affect the signal quality, ...

ST has created a dual precision op-amp for automotive sensor signal conditioning, with 20µV input offset voltage and 100nV/°C drift, and operation over 4 to 36V and -40 to 125°C. Input common mode ...