World`s 1st Thermocouples to °C Converter ICs from Microchip, MCP9600xx series
Our innovative portfolio of highly integrated thermocouple conditioning IC solutions simplifies your development and speeds up your product’s time to market. These devices integrate a precision high-resolution Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), a precision high-accuracy temperature sensor (for cold junction compensation) and precision instrumentation that corrects the thermocouple non-linear error characteristics of eight of the most popular thermocouple types used today. An on-board, preprogrammed math engine enables these ICs to accurately measure temperature through real-time non-linearity thermocouple corrections up to a ninth order equation.
Key Benefits
- World’s first fully integrated thermocouple to degrees Celsius converter ICs
- Combine a high-precision ADC, high-accuracy temperature sensor and a preprogrammed math engine into a single package to simplify designs
- High temperature accuracy for precise applications
- Small packaging to save space and cost
- Easy-to-use thermocouple IC development kit allows you to quickly accelerate your design to production
MCP9600 Thermocouple Converter
The MCP9600 is a fully integrated thermocouple Electromotive Force (EMF) to degree Celsius converter with integrated Cold-Junction compensation. The MCP9600 supports 8 thermocouple types (K, J, T, N, S, E, B and R). The MCP9600 provides user-programmable registers, adding design flexibility for various temperature sensing applications. The registers allow user-selectable settings, such as low-power modes for battery-powered applications, an adjustable digital filter for fast transient temperatures and four individually programmable temperature alert outputs, which can be used to detect multiple temperature zones.
Additional Features
- Provides a Complete “Plug and Play” Thermocouple Conditioning Solution
- ±0.5°C/1.5°C (Typ./Max.) Hot-Junction Temperature Measurement Accuracy
- ±0.5°C/1.0°C (Typ./Max.) Cold-Junction Temperature Measurement Accuracy
- I2C™ Compatible,100 kHz, supporting up to eight devices on I2C bus
- Operating Voltage Range: 2.7V to 5.5V
- Operating Current: 500 μA (typical)
- Shutdown Current: 2 μA (typical)
- Package: 20-lead MQFN
Typical Applications
Industrial
- Furnaces
- Kilns and smelters
- Boilers and water heaters
- Gas turbines
- Industrial process control equipment
- Chemical and petrochemical processing equipment
- Oil and gas process equipment
- Handheld medical equipment
Consumer
- Barbeque grills/smokers
- Ovens
- Meat thermometers
- Cooktops
- Refrigerators and freezers
- HVAC systems
