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Texas Instruments Invents New Data Converter Category

Inductance-to-digital converter revolutionizes position and motion sensing

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Texas Instruments (TI) unveiled the industry’s first inductance-to-digital converter (LDC), a new data converter category that uses coils and springs as inductive sensors to deliver higher resolution, increased reliability, and greater flexibility than existing sensing solutions at a lower system cost. Inductive sensing is a contactless sensing technology that can be used to measure the position, motion, or composition of a metal or conductive target, as well as detect the compression,...

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