Precision medium bandwidth signal chain platform links various sensors

Analog Devices, Inc has released a precision medium bandwidth signal chain platform enhancing system performance for signal bandwidths of DC to approximately 500kHz towards industrial and instrumentation applications. The new platform provides a variety of complete signal chains with customisable solution options and a curated suite of development tools, including LTspice simulations, to ease the design journey. These robust signal chains, developed for time and frequency measurement precision, allow for end systems that may accept inputs from the broadest array of sensor and measurement modalities, from IEPE vibration and acceleration to temperature and pressure. The signal chains also aid engineers in designing confidently and tackling the most demanding precision instrumentation challenges in areas such as CbM, large channel count or distributed DAQ, position and motor control, and sonar.

The signal chains incorporated within the platform provide precision and power component selections that prioritise combined AC and DC accuracy design needs, with options for single or multichannel systems and higher channel density for the largest channel count systems. Examples of precision medium bandwidth signal chain options offered with the platform include those that enable scaling of AC precision versus power for instrumentation, low latency options for motor control and position sensing, and the highest density options utilising signal chain µModule SIP solutions or multichannel converters. Large channel count system designers can select from signal chains where channel synchronisation is a priority, whether in channel-isolated or non-isolated systems.