Toronto, Canada - December 30, 2008 - SWP announced that its UFDC-1 and UFDC-1M-16 Universal Frequency-to-Digital Converters are available in 5 x 5 x 1.0 mm body, 32-pad, lead pitch 0.50 mm Micro Lead Frame package (MLF). This miniaturized package can be used in pen-size measuring instruments and various quasi-digital sensors and transducers to convert frequency-time parameters of electrical signals from sensing elements to digital. Both CMOS ICs are two-cannel universal frequency-to-digital converters that can work with any sensors from frequency-time signal domain group and convert frequency, period, its ratio and difference, duty-cycle, duty-off factor, PWM signal, time interval, pulse width and space, rotation speed, pulse number, and phase shift to digital.
The UFDC-1 and UFDC-1M-16 have a high and constant selectable accuracy (programmable from 1 to 0.001 %) in a wide frequency range up to 7.5 MHz (120 MHz), scalable resolution from to 2.5 E-7 Hz to 45 Hz and non-redundant conversion time. Both ICs have 3 serial interfaces: RS232 (including a master communication mode), I2C and SPI.
The main differences between the UFDC-1 and UFDC-1M-16 chips are frequency range and conversion time.Typical applications are included but not restricted by the following:
- Any frequency, period, duty-cycle, PWM, time interval, phase-shift, pulse number output sensors in order to produce a digital output;
- Digital sensors design;
- Smart (self-adaptive) sensors and systems due to programmable accuracy and non-redundant conversion time - adaptive possibilities of ICs automatically choice the conversion time depending on the given error of measurement and opposite;
- Multifunctional and multiparameters sensors for simultaneous detection various parameters proportional to frequency and duty-cycle carrying the information provided by sensing elements;
- Data acquisition (DAQ) boars and systems for frequency-time parameters of electric signals;
- Virtual instruments;
- Desktop universal frequency counters;
- Tachometers and tachometric systems;
- Handheld multimeters for frequency-time parameters of electric signals;
- High-end, mid- and low-range ABS;
- High accuracy programmable frequency-time parameters-to-digital converters for different measuring and communication applications;
- Advanced analog-to-digital conversion using voltage-to-frequency converters for remote sensors.
