Highly-Accurate, Loop-Powered, 4mA to 20mA Field Transmitter With HART® Modem Reference Design
TIDA-01504
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Description
This reference design provides a solution for a loop-powered, highly-accurate, field (sensor) transmitter with a HART® modem. The design uses a partially-discrete 4-mA to 20-mA current transmitter, HART modem, microcontroller, and power conditioning blocks in realizing a smart field transmitter design. The design is compliant with the HART FSK Physical Layer Specification and has been registered with FieldComm Group™.
Features
- Loop-powered, 4-mA to 20-mA current transmitter with DAC8740H HART modem and onboard power conditioning blocks
- Less than 0.1% FSR total unadjusted error at room temperature
- External protection circuitry with reverse polarity protection
- Compliant with HART FSK Physical Layer Specification and registered HART device
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TI Devices (8)
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LM4132 |
0.05% 20-ppm/°C drift precision series voltage reference with shutdown enable |
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MSP430FR5969 |
16 MHz MCU with 64KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, AES, 12-bit ADC, comparator, DMA, UART/SPI/I2C, timer |
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OPA333 |
1.8-V, 17-µA, microPower, precision, zero-drift CMOS op amp |
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OPA335 |
Single 0.05uV/C max, single-supply CMOS operational amplifier |
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TPS7A4101 |
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TPS7B69-Q1 |
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Datasheet (2)
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User guide (1)
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