Product category: Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs
News Release from: Intersil | Subject: Digitally controlled potentiometers
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 May 2007
Digital pots retain precision
Digitally controlled potentiometers provide precision measurement and a wide operating temperature range.
Intersil has introduced two new families of 128-tap nonvolatile single, dual and quad digitally controlled potentiometers (DCPs) These families of DCPs with SPI and I2C interfaces provide precision measurement and a wide operating temperature range for applications designed to function from -40 to +125C
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The DCPs feature an excellent temperature coefficient, providing highly precise measurements and reducing resistance drifts in applications that experience temperature fluctuations.
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The devices are designed to operate over the full industrial temperature range, making them an excellent choice for industrial designs, automotive designs, medical instrumentation and many consumer electronics applications.
The devices are reliable and flexible, and can be used in any application that requires an adjustment within the voltage range of 0 to 5V allowing for flexibility in analogue circuit designs with cost-efficient solutions.
All members of Intersil's latest DCP families feature a combination of resistor elements and CMOS switches, and each operates with a voltage range from 2.7 to 5.5V.
Wiper position is controlled by the user through either an SPI serial interface or I2C interface.
Intersil's ISL223X6 (I2C) and ISL224X6 (SPI) include single, dual and quad versions integrated with nonvolatile memory.
They are designed for use either as voltage dividers or as variable resistors as they can be used as three-terminal potentiometers or as two-terminal variable resistors.
Unlike a rail-to-rail DAC, or the ISL223x9/ ISL224x9 family, the voltage of these parts does not need to be fixed at GND and VDD.
The ISL223X6 and ISL224X6 terminal voltages can be adjusted to any value between GND and VDD.
The ISL22316 and ISL22416 integrate a single DCP and nonvolatile memory in a monolithic CMOS integrated circuit.
The ISL22326 and ISL22426 dual versions integrate two DCPs with memory, while the quad ISL22346 and ISL22446 versions incorporate four DCPs with memory.
The ISL223X9 and ISL224X9 also include single, dual and quad versions.
In all of these devices, the VH is connected to VDD and the VL is connected to GND, providing a voltage divider solution in a small package that requires only a minimal number of external components.
The single versions are the ISL22319 and ISL22419 with one DCP and nonvolatile memory.
The dual versions are the ISL22329 and ISL22429 with two DCPs and nonvolatile memory.
The quad versions include the ISL22349 and ISL22449, with four DCPs and nonvolatile memory.
The single ISL22316 and ISL22416 are available now in 10-lead MSOP packaging.
The dual ISL22326 and ISL22426 are available now in 14-lead TSSOP packaging, and the quad ISL22346 and ISL22446 are available in 20-lead TSSOP packaging.
The single ISL22319 and ISL22419 are available now in 8-lead MSOP packaging.
The dual ISL22329 and ISL22429 are available in 10-lead MSOP packaging and the quad ISL22349 and ISL22449 are available in 14-lead TSSOP packaging.
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