The MSC1200 from Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX,
is a data acquisition system on a chip from the company's Burr-Brown
product line. The
system integrates a 24-bit delta-sigma, analog-to-digital converter
with an 8051 processor core, flash memory, internal oscillator, and
peripherals. The system enables high-resolution measurement in industrial
process control, portable instrumentation, smart transmitters, and
chromatography. The analog features include a flexible eight-channel
multiplexer, burn-out detect, selectable buffered input, programmable
gains to 128, on-chip temperature sensor, and selectable data output
rate. Digital features include two flash memory sizes (4K and 8K),
128 bytes of SRAM, four I/O ports, two timers/counters, and a 32-bit
accumulator/shifter.
Resources:
Recent
Products of the Month:
November
2003
ALGOR V14 Finite Element Analysis Software
Texas
Instruments
October 2003
PS5R
Slim Line Power Supplies
IDEC
Corp.
September
2003
DMC-21x3
Ethernet Motion Controller
Galil
Motion Control
|
|
