Analog front ends bridge NDIR gas, pH-sensing transducers, microcontrollers

摘要

Though less glamorous than the various sensors now in consumer products, specialized transducers in the instrumentation world have amazing diversity in sensing real-world phenomena. Temperature, for example, is so basic yet requires so many types of sensors, which are available in thousands of styles. Two analog front-end ICs from Texas Instruments strive to greatly simplify the path between a sensor and its associated processor.