Texas Instruments is now allowing their control and monitoring applications to be reduced in sized with their new analog-to-digital converter designs.
The company said the ADS7042 is the industry’s smallest and lowest-power 12-bit SAR ADC, and the ADS8354 family includes the industry’s smallest 14- and 16-bit, simultaneous-sampling SAR ADCs.
Advantages of the new ADS7042 designs include a simple serial peripheral interface, fast response time, flexibility, reduction in the need for external signal conditioning, and less use of power. Because this model is the smallest in the industry, this is also helpful when competing with other companys’ gadgets.
The ADS7042 can also be used in “motor control, metering, and portable medical equipment, as well as space-constrained consumer applications, such as hard disk drives, computer peripherals, wearable fitness and smart phones,” say experts.
