Time-to-Digital Converter for Time-of-Flight Applications in LIDAR, Magnetostrictive and Flow Meters 14-TSSOP -40 to 85
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Time-to-digital converters are used in measuring time-of-flight in multiple end applications such as drones, range finders, machine vision, robots, etc. These end applications can either use light waves, ultrasonic waves or other technologies such as RADAR. However, in each of these cases, time-of-flight between the transmitted wave and the reflected wave provides us with dista
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Ultrasonic sensing utilizing Time Of Flight (TOF) measurement techniques are used in liquid level and fluid identification sensing in the automotive, consumer and medical markets. Ultrasonic (TOF) sensing can yield high accuracy and high reliability with low-power consumption for all of these markets. In order to achieve the best cost-to-performance combination, care must be ta
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This application note describes the firmware procedure for measuring temperature via two RTD's using the TDC1000 and TDC7200. Temperature is monitored in heat meters and flow meters.
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Ultrasonic sensing utilizing Time Of Flight (TOF) measurement techniques can be used to monitor material purity/contamination levels and or to differentiate materials non-invasively. This technology has been utilized in the automotive, consumer, medical and food preparation markets worldwide. Ultrasonic (TOF) sensing can yield high accuracy with low power consumption for all of
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Ultrasonic sensing Time Of Flight (TOF) measurement techniques can be utilized to measure fluid levels in tanks. Those measurements can either be done from inside or outside the wall of the tank. In automotive, industrial and even medical applications the ability to perform non-invasive measurements is driven from the target fluid's corrosiveness and/or sterile requirements. Th
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Ultrasonic Sensing Basics for Liquid Level Sensing, Flow Sensing, and Fluid Identification
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Ultrasonic flow meters are gaining wide usage in commercial, industrial and medical applications. Major benefits of utilizing this type of flowmeter are higher accuracy, low maintenance (no moving parts), non-invasive flow measurement, and the ability to regularly diagnose health of the meter. This application note is intended as an introduction to ultrasonic time-of-flight (TO
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Transit-time ultrasonic gas flow meters have gained acceptance in applications for gas transferdistribution. Advantages of this technology include: wide measuring range, relatively high accuracy, goodrepeatability, negligible pressure drop, general insensitivity to liquid contaminants, insensitivity tofluctuations of the gas composition, and low maintenance.This application note covers t
