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News Release from: ZMD America | Subject: MUSic semiconductors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2008
Semiconductors offer multiple sensor
control
MUSic semiconductors suit applications with multiple sensors where a microcontroller is the heart of the system.
ZMD America has released the the multiSensor Interface Circuit (MUSic) family of semiconductors for microcontroller-based consumer, medical and industrial systems requiring multiple sensor control As consumer and industrial systems incorporate greater numbers of sensors, multichannel and multiuse sensor interfaces becomes more important
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Market trends and manufacturers using battery-powered, microcontroller-based mobile electronics motivated ZMD to create this new product family", said Dr Dirk Behrens, ZMD Vice-President of Marketing.
"With these highly integrated Sensor Signal Interface ICs manufacturers can build highly innovative products in ultra-compact form factors and with very long battery-powered runtimes".
The MUSic family is tailored for a variety of markets and applications, especially those with multiple sensors where a microcontroller is the heart of the system.
These include different wearable medical instruments; mobile and consumer devices for sports and outdoor activities requiring a combination of data offered by altimeters, barometers and navigation functions, as well as industrial systems where measurement requires multiple sensors, like flow monitors or scales.
The MUSic devices will also be found in other applications where multiple high-precision sensors and low power are essential.
All members of this new product family incorporate a sophisticated analogue front-end, including a flexible programmable gain amplifier, several analogue and digital filters and a power-optimised analogue sampling architecture.
With their high level of integration, all MUSic product family members dramatically reduce the overall bill of materials and product dimensions, while also minimising average power consumption.
Each family member contains an on-chip clock generator and an EEPROM to store nonvolatile configuration data, calibration coefficients and optional user-programmable ID.
Serial standard interfaces like SPI and I2C connect them to the central microcontroller of the system.
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