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Board as a development tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target board. The manual layout is as follows: • Chapter 1. “Product Overview” – This is an introduction to the MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board. It covers the kit contents, associated tools and how they work together.
{ ... RECOMMENDED READING This user's guide describes how to use the MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board. Other useful documents are listed below. The following Microchip documents are available and recommended as supplemental reference resources. MCP3550/1/3 Data Sheet, “Low-Power Single Channel 22-Bit Delta-Sigma ADCs”...
DEMO BOARD USER’S GUIDE Chapter 1. Product Overview INTRODUCTION This chapter provides an overview of the MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board and covers the following topics: • What is the MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board? • What the MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board kit includes WHAT IS THE MCP355X TINY APPLICATION SENSOR DEMO BOARD? The MCP3550/1/3 devices are 2.7V to 5.5V low-power, 22-bit Delta-Sigma...
Chapter 2. Installation and Operation INTRODUCTION The MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board is designed to demonstrate the performance of the MCP3550/1/3 devices in a simple low-cost application. The circuit uses a ratiometric sensor configuration and uses the system power supply as the voltage reference.
MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board User’s Guide USB Power & Data USB Power (Digital) Power Supply USB Connector Filtering Digital Ground Analog Plane Ground PIC18F4550 Plane Analog Power & Reference MCP3551 SM5420 FIGURE 2-2: Block Diagram. FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DESCRIPTIONS 2.3.1...
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2.3.5 DataView Noise Analysis The system noise from the MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board will be an aperiodic signal not having any wave or shape. This randomness is best dealt with in statistical properties, hence the RMS measurement of the Gaussian or normal distribu- tion.
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MCP355X Tiny Application Sensor Demo Board User’s Guide 2σ σ FIGURE 2-4: Two Normal or Gaussian Output Distributions. The DataView software tool is a visualization tool, showing real-time histograms using the MCP3551. The software also calculates the RMS noise of the current distribution.
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