The SSP1401 (Product Brief) helps you get products to market faster, cheaper and within your power budget. It’s designed for deeply-embedded applications, where it needs to measure your sensor, draw minimal current, fit in your product and fit in your budget. It works with capacitive, inductive and resistive sensors and can read up to six sensors.

With the SSP1401, sensors are easy.

 

 

 

The SSP1401 (Product Brief) has six user-configurable I/O channels that can drive most types of sensor elements including resistive, capacitive, inductive and piezo-resistive varieties. It uses a simple yet powerful measurement technique, akin to a relaxation oscillator, to directly convert sensor values into digital results — without the need for an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). The technology provides a high level of flexibility and performance while still being extremely cost effective. Measurement times can be kept short and can be adjusted depending on the power budget: short measurements mean less power consumption and longer measurements mean better resolution.

Create an entire smart sensor solution within hours with only a sensor and as few as 2 external passive components. Internal ROM already contains ready-to-use signal processing functions. No programming is required to operate system as a slave from I2C or SPI interface. Click Here for an Evaluation Unit!