This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 7. Strain gages and pressure sensors usually are connected in a bridge configuration. These sensors have a typical full-scale ...

Many industrial and medical applications use instrumentation amplifiers (INA) to condition small signals in the presence of large common-mode voltages and DC potentials. The three-op-amp INA ...

Chip-scale-packaged device adjusts for system-level gain and offset errors while protecting against faults. In any given batch of pressure or strain-bridge sensors, sensitivity (gain) and offset ...

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the Wheatstone bridge topology, excitation and calibration methodologies, and basic signal-conditioning techniques using building blocks such as difference ...