Intersil has joined with Renesas Electronics to develop a sensor signal conditioning reference design for thermocouple, pressure and strain gauges.
The design incorporates two boards - an Intersil board with analogue front-end chips and a Renesas RL78/G13 microcontroller development board.
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The analogue-to-digital front-end incorporates the ISL28617 40V instrumentation amplifier with integrated ADC driver, the ISL28134 5V zero drift op amp, the ISL26102 24-bit delta sigma converter and the ISL21090, an ultra low noise precision bandgap voltage reference, among others.
Software interface is included for evaluation purposes.
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It is powered from a debugger mini USB connection (or an optional 5V power supply) located on the Renesas RL78/G13 demonstration kit.
The +12V, +10V, and ±5V supplies on the Intersil board are generated from the 3.3V supply on the Renesas board.
The reference design is being distributed through Avnet Memec
Source:
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2013/03/01/55688/intersil-renesas-offer-rl78-based-sensor-conditioning-circuit.htm
