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PSoC Analog Compressor Slide 9

This slide goes through an example of a PSoC Analog Coprocessor application. Depicted is a temperature sensor design using thermocouples. If someone were to do this today using traditional techniques, they would have to buy analog front end ICs, or other similar analog products like an instrumentation amplifier, an analog multiplexer chip, and some sort of microcontroller. Additionally, several 100 lines of code would have to be written, to calibrate that sensor, and convert it into a temperature value. Instead though, the whole system could be implemented in a single design in PSoC Creator, where an entire analog front end exists, drawn out as a schematic. In PSoC creator there are op amps, analog MUXs, ADCs, and then additionally, even drop components for a thermocouple and thermistor, where the component takes care of all of the calibration, conversion, and measurement going from raw voltage data, to meaningful calibrated temperature data. All of this is done on a single chip and simply programmed onto a PSoC analog coprocessor. Both design methods get the same end result solution, but one is cheaper, faster to implement, and smaller in board size as well.

PTM Published on: 2016-10-26