Connector Specifier Magazine - Connection Products -
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Published on: 3/1/2002
Last Visited: 4/2/2002
This device will simplify the design of complex systems and reduce overall component cost," said Robert Schreiber, product line manager for TI's data acquisition system products."The noise performance of the ADC is better than most standalone ADCs on the market and is significantly better than any comparable mixed-signal device.The enhanced 8051 core, along with the high-performance peripherals, pushes the performance envelope of the digital processing while maintaining analog signal integrity."
The analog features of the MSC1210 family consist of a 24-bit delta sigma ADC, a flexible eight-channel multiplexer, burn-out current sources, selectable buffered input, offset digital-to-analog converter (DAC), programmable gains of up to 128, selectable data output rate, programmable single-cycle settling filter, precision on-chip voltage reference or external differential voltage reference, on-chip temperature sensor, on-chip calibration, low voltage detect and brown-out reset.
The digital features of the MSC1210 family include an enhanced 8051 microcontroller core with dual data pointers, four flash memory size options (4k, 8k, 16k, 32k) -- all with external memory capability as well -- 1.2kbytes of SRAM, 34 I/O lines, an additional 32-bit accumulator/shifter, dual UARTs, three timers/counters, SPI interface with direct memory access and a watchdog timer.